Re: Postscript printer, serial or parallel cable?

2003-12-24 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 21:54, Doug Poland wrote: > The handbook states that I can use serial or parallel cabling to a > postscript capable printer but there may be some advantage to a serial > cable as it is bi-directional. I've got several newer

Re: Postscript printer, serial or parallel cable?

2003-12-22 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Doug Poland wrote: > I recently got my hands on a free (woowho!) HP 4050 printer. That's an excellent printer, and works well with FreeBSD. (I've got a 4000, and use about a dozen 4050s heavily with a homegrown FreeBSD printing system at a client location.) > I'm going to h

Re: Postscript printer, serial or parallel cable?

2003-12-21 Thread Scott W
Doug Poland wrote: Hi, I recently got my hands on a free (woowho!) HP 4050 printer. I'm going to hook it up to a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE server. The printer has two serial (one male/one female) connectors, a Centronix port, and some odd looking port that looks like you plug a mouse into it. The hand

Postscript printer, serial or parallel cable?

2003-12-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I recently got my hands on a free (woowho!) HP 4050 printer. I'm going to hook it up to a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE server. The printer has two serial (one male/one female) connectors, a Centronix port, and some odd looking port that looks like you plug a mouse into it. The handbook states that I