Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:27:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 720C ... Message-ID: <20060813112702.45967.qmail@web35607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1155465633.52536.3.camel@localhost>
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--- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote: > I cannot for the life of me get FreeBSD 6.1 to work > with my HP Dekjet > 720C printer. I've tried following the directions as > given in the > FreeBSD Handbook, but to no avail. > > Can anyone help me and/or offer tips where I can > look? > Did you try postscript printing with a2ps and LPD? If the printer listens at TCP port 515, then I think yo u are set. Make sure you have LPRng. To test that, just try telnet <hp-printer-ip> 515 and see if it connects. If that goes thro' you only have to export a shell variable and you can print. export PRINTER=lp@hp-printer-ip HTH, Girish > Thanks alot in advance. > > -- > Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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