From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 16:54:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B0516A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (82-68-135-38.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.68.135.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E9443FE9 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost.invalid (unknown [192.168.1.190]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13057133AD for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 00:54:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 00:53:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <200311081944.48496.alexkelly@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <200311081944.48496.alexkelly@adelphia.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5863 DF82 C34D 7291 CC63 CA1B 17C2 2ED7 3379 5A2C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200311090054.06774.howells@kde.org> Subject: Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:54:32 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sunday 09 November 2003 00:44, Alex Kelly wrote: > I cannot get my HP Deskjet 3420 printer to work. I've read all the prior > posts for USB printers, checked the handbook and the complete freebsd boo= k. > After doing so, I've come up with this... Any particular reason to use lpd? Without trying to start a holy war, I=20 personally much prefer CUPS, it's far easier to configure (just go to http:= // localhost:631), and combined with the hpijs port works perfectly without an= y=20 messing about with my HP DeskJet 3820. =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/rZAuF8Iu1zN5WiwRAngLAJ9hxLEXzt7u1uB8CVcWOstoj55jVACgo72i GYt92JSaSJk1jGWO6Hwv+II=3D =3DsQWS =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----