Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:58:36 -0600 (CST) From: Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net> To: Keith Alan Landry <wirwzd@wirewizards.com> Cc: <dschultz@uclink.Berkely.EDU>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems Message-ID: <20020127154852.K145-100000@hal.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <002701c1a75c$a03f7e30$0b01a8c0@idoru>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I installed apsfilter, pnm2ppa, ghostscript, along with all the dependent stuff that gets put in with no errors. I ran apsfilter, found the 722 pnm2ppa driver, chose mostly the default stuff like letter size, dpi, etc. When I tell it to test print, I get an error message about it not being able to open the pnm file. I've got the sample pnm2ppa.conf.sample copied as pnm2ppa.conf to /usr/local/etc. Checked it & found the right parameters (maybe) that I had put into it with aspfilter. I'm really bumfuzzled at this point. Everything else seems to still be working fine on the system. I did a cvsup after the original install & I believe uname -a output is FreeBSD 4.5-RC. Maybe that's what's caused some problems, but I had hoped it'd be the other way around. You said your 722's working fine. Could I get a copy of the pnm2ppa conf file? It might really help. Some of the stuff's still fairly over my head. Thanks for the answers & help. On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Keith Alan Landry wrote: > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:01:20 -0500 > From: Keith Alan Landry <wirwzd@wirewizards.com> > To: Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Schultz" <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> > To: "Denny White" <dennyboy@cableone.net> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:11 AM > Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems > > > > Thus spake Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net>: > > > have tried all day & all night to get my hp 722c deskjet printer to > > > work. it used > > > to be picked up on during boot at least, before i started fooling around > > > with it. > > > > You can't print because the 722C uses HP's aweful proprietary PPA > > protocol. To fix the problem, install /usr/ports/print/pnm2ppa and > > GhostScript. The directions to set it up in /etc/printcap should be > > included with pnm2ppa. If not, try > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa > > > > Alternatively, apsfilter may take care of all that stuff for you, as I > > recall. (It's 5 AM here, so I don't recall much right now.) > > > > I use an HP722C as a network printer for my home network. Apsfilter has > options for printers which use pnm2ppa and works beautifully. > > -- > Keith Alan Landry > http://www.wirewizards.com > http://www.twelfthofnever.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > "Remember, wherever you go, there you are!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VHgXy0Ty5RZE55oRAjBAAJ905LnyAV4tEicOX0J/HpkelHZ8SwCgvlAd uoc4+4miFXkFs/DzKr5d7Ao= =c9Ij -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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