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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:58:06 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Bob <jwillson@ecn.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can I use an HP printer
Message-ID:  <20070206065806.GB2031@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <45C7F826.3070202@ecn.net.au>
References:  <45C7F826.3070202@ecn.net.au>

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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:38:14PM +1000, Bob wrote:
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>    Hello
>    I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer.
>    It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under
>    FreeBSD 6.2.

According to the HP pages, it only supports host-based printer
languages. I.e. it's a win-printer. You can get it to mostly work using
foo2hp: http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/

For printer questions in general have a look at this page:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi=20


Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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