From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 15:59:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A61F16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:59:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79D0C43D41 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:59:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.107?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2005 15:59:12 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Kiffin Gish In-Reply-To: <000001c50075$4d7b7f80$9900000a@ZGISH> References: <000001c50075$4d7b7f80$9900000a@ZGISH> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1106409551.2508.249.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:59:11 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot connect to printer... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:59:14 -0000 On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 06:27, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I have read the manual carefully, looked in the forums and tried everything, > but for the life of me I just cannot get my printer to work under FreeBSD. > > Actually my setup is nothing complicated or so you would think. I have an HP > Deskjet 720C connected to my parallel printer port. It workes just fine > under Windows so I know that the hardware, cables etc. are fine. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I have an HP 710C, which is very similar, and was intended as a Windows-only printer. A small team reverse-engineered the protocol, and wrote "pnm2ppa", which will do the necessary conversion. It is available in the ports/packages collection, and works quite well. It is slow, and a better recommendation is to buy a more normal printer if the money is available.