From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 13 9:44: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [192.168.1.254] (proxy.tigertown.k12.mo.us [204.185.250.124]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14B024257 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:44:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.132.201.74] by [192.168.1.254];Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:44:07 GMT X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:48:28 -0600 Subject: Re: HP "host based" printers (PPA) and FreeBSD ? From: "Andy Rowland" To: Woody Carey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000213174404.14B024257@builder.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Woody Carey >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: HP "host based" printers (PPA) and FreeBSD ? >Date: Sun, Feb 13, 2000, 2:58 AM > [snip for length] >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... The 700-series HPs are junk unless you are using Windows. They don't do *any* emulations, including PCL. I have run into this problem in my real job (sysadmin for 5 school districts) with these printers and DOS programs. They're useless unless you're running at least in Win16 mode, if not Win32. (all together now...EWWWW!) The 5/6/8/9 series seem to be OK, with a few exceptions, as they will all run PCL. >Thanks for any clues, HTH, HAND. > - Woody > --Andy Rowland Coordinator, Grand River Network rowland@lyn.net andy@tigertown.k12.mo.us > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message