From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 10: 4:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-34-68-157.telocity.com (dsl-64-34-68-157.telocity.com [64.34.68.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C9A37B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from idoru (idoru.wirewizards.com [192.168.1.11]) by dsl-64-34-68-157.telocity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g0RI4fq20542; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:04:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wirwzd@wirewizards.com) Message-ID: <002701c1a75c$a03f7e30$0b01a8c0@idoru> From: "Keith Alan Landry" To: "Denny White" Cc: References: <3C53ED96.A7AD98EC@cableone.net> <20020127051135.A6017@HAL9000.wox.org> Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:01:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Schultz" To: "Denny White" Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:11 AM Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems > Thus spake Denny White : > > have tried all day & all night to get my hp 722c deskjet printer to > > work. it used > > to be picked up on during boot at least, before i started fooling around > > with it. > > You can't print because the 722C uses HP's aweful proprietary PPA > protocol. To fix the problem, install /usr/ports/print/pnm2ppa and > GhostScript. The directions to set it up in /etc/printcap should be > included with pnm2ppa. If not, try http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa > > Alternatively, apsfilter may take care of all that stuff for you, as I > recall. (It's 5 AM here, so I don't recall much right now.) > I use an HP722C as a network printer for my home network. Apsfilter has options for printers which use pnm2ppa and works beautifully. -- Keith Alan Landry http://www.wirewizards.com http://www.twelfthofnever.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message