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From: "Paul Allemekinders" <paalleme@home.com>
To: Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:59:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: Printing with HP 720C
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Following the instructions from the FreeBSD Handbook  7.4.2, I 
have set the communications mode for the parrallel port, and am 
trying to test if the OS can send data to the printer.  I attempted to 
use lptest > /dev/lpt0 and also the PostScript program using cat > 
/dev/lpt0.  Neither produces any output.  Also I install the aspfilter 
ports on somebody elses suggestion and when it gets to the point 
to print a test page....nothing.

>From reading around I'm thinking that this is a truly Windows only 
printer but that just doesn't make sense to me anyway.


> If the 720C is backwards compatible, you should be able to get 
> some reasonable output.  What kind of problems are you having?
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Paul Allemekinders wrote:
> > I'm at the 
> > printer stage and am having difficulties.  Has anyone been able to 
> > use the HP DeskJet 720C series printer through FreeBSD?  I 
> > notice that in its documentation that it only supports DOS printing 
> > through one of the windows OS but I hope that I can still use it with 
> > FreeBSD.


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