From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 23:30:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.velosystems.net (cx144844-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.9.137.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8106B37B404 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from velosystems.net (jeeves.velosystems.net [192.168.1.6]) by lucifer.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D13372688; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:30:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:30:24 -0800 From: Steve Wingate To: "Bill Schoolcraft" Cc: s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting-up CUPS with HP Deskjet 710C problems Message-Id: <20020105233024.6108ce5c.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: References: <200201032003.VAA20258@smtp.hccnet.nl> Organization: Velosystems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:22, you wrote: > > > At Wed, 2 Jan 2002 it looks like Simon Siemonsma composed: > > > > I have a so called Windows printer. > > > > > > I believe right there "all bets are off" as far as I know. With the > > > > No there is a backend filter for my printer in the ports collection > > > > I more or less mean that using that with CUPS may make it unusable. > I have one of these infamous Windows-only GDI printers, a Lexmark Z52, on a Linksys printserver. I am able to print to it from Linux after the handy Mandrake wizard walked me thru setting up cups/gimp-print. I have yet to make the effort to find those settings and get it working from my FreeBSD box, but one day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message