Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:01:20 -0500 From: "Keith Alan Landry" <wirwzd@wirewizards.com> To: "Denny White" <dennyboy@cableone.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems Message-ID: <002701c1a75c$a03f7e30$0b01a8c0@idoru> References: <3C53ED96.A7AD98EC@cableone.net> <20020127051135.A6017@HAL9000.wox.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Schultz" <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Denny White" <dennyboy@cableone.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:11 AM Subject: Re: hp 722c deskjet problems > Thus spake Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net>: > > 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
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