From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 13 1: 1:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D393DEC for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by mail.wcarey.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08202 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:58:52 -0800 (PST) From: Woody Carey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HP "host based" printers (PPA) and FreeBSD ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Being the recent owner of an HP DeskJet 710C, and trying to get FreeBSD 3.2-R printing to it, I started hunting around on the web for PCL resources so I could cat a pcl file to it and test my parallel port connection to the printer. Link 'a' took me to link 'b' took me to http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpd06898.html which states: "Note: Host based printers such as the HP DeskJet 710, 720C, 820C and 1000C series will not function in the Linux environment because they depend on the Microsoft Windows operating system." Now, I know the FreeBSD != Linux, please don't go there. Is this printer some stupid "WinPrinter" that is useless to me from FreeBSD? Am I completely hosed? Any clues greatly appreciated, I don't know enough about what "PPA" is to figure out how crippled this printer is... Thanks for any clues, - Woody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message