From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 18:58:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00171 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:58:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00164 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA05471; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:57:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981116215728.A5428@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:57:28 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" To: Aaron Parmelee Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: set up printing References: <3.0.5.32.19981115235501.008fe4c0@net66.com> <3.0.5.32.19981115235501.008fe4c0@net66.com> <19981116010651.A29359@emu.sourcee.com> <3.0.5.32.19981116131639.009c19d0@net66.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981116131639.009c19d0@net66.com>; from Aaron Parmelee on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:16:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:16:39PM -0600, Aaron Parmelee wrote: > At 01:06 AM 11/16/98 -0500, you wrote: > > > >> incidently, i have an HP DeskJet 712c printer. > > ^^^^ > >AFAIK all the HP 700 series printers require special Windows drivers. > >They are winprinters and don't work with FreeBSD. Almost every other > >model works great. > >-- > > Thats fabulous: I read your message, and something struck me: i dug up the > box the printer came in- there was a designed for windows label on it. my > modem works the same way. winows only. > > is there any way around this? its a pretty nice printer. I don't know of any way to get this to work outside of the Windows environment and I don't know whether Hewlett-Packard publishes the information required to get it working. I did see something about some Linux drivers for winmodems and winprinters, but I can't recall where I saw it. Do you still have your sales receipt? -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > thanks for the info > -aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message