From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 14:21:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDEF1550C for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.NoDak.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA09151; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:21:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199910042121.QAA09151@plains.NoDak.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, s.mitchell@computer.org Subject: Re: HP printers & FreeBSD? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anyway, looking through the > specs for the current crop of Deskjets, many of them apparently use > something called 'Printing Performance Architecture' -- these also seem to > be the models that don't even offer Mac support, so I assume the 'Printing > Performance Architecture' is some kind of poxy WinPrinter thing that is > best avoided. All is not lost, Tim Norman has reverse engineered the PPA instructions, and has written a program that supposedly gives Unix support the these printers. For program and download information, see: http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/ --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message