From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 5: 9:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (12-232-222-90.client.attbi.com [12.232.222.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0172F37B47B for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dschultz@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0RDBZS06107; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:11:35 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Denny White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems Message-ID: <20020127051135.A6017@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: Denny White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C53ED96.A7AD98EC@cableone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C53ED96.A7AD98EC@cableone.net>; from dennyboy@cableone.net on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:07:51AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Denny White : > 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.) As for why your printer is no longer being detected by FreeBSD, I have no idea. Perhaps you should undo what you tried. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message