From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 12:47:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF6B106566B for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:47:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lumiwa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8530E8FC08 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk38 with SMTP id 38so117885qyk.13 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:47:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=RFL+Yy8c+mnDpW9BpqIiBjHUsBfllCSB2HL2+84/Vdg=; b=Av+75eiqsc4O3yjAGLlNuIsFpTr5xK+mqhJooAcPn2quHVHWt1K/MKtbgr0zKnTJSN Ho/hFXiKgp9pfQzPbN03ri77oL7monJKnbhyTF6HLl3WrgX9iyMOQx2Bqxhv3p18P/jV EzdEMFmH4LDcfZFy9HVxq6oenZR54GcuLnQpQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.135.12 with SMTP id l12mr5117555qct.53.1311166069725; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.16.196 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:47:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201107191654.00887.lumiwa@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:47:49 -0500 Message-ID: From: Franci Nabalanci To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer - broadband router X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:47:51 -0000 I am so sorry it was my mistake: the printer is HP Business inkjet 3000. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ajtiM wrote: > > My system: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #0m I use KDE 4.6.5 >> CUPS and HPLIP are installed. >> I have an old broadband router D-604 (dlink), cable Internet and my >> computer >> with FreeBSD and the other one with Windows are connected to the router. >> I got HP bussiness inkjet 5000 which was connected to the network (my >> work). >> And the last one: I never had printer on my computer with FreeBSD and >> looks >> like is not so easy to setup. >> >> I just run HP Device Manager and it didn't find anything but light where >> is >> printer connected blink. >> > > Setting up printers on FreeBSD generally isn't that hard. Difficulties > come from cheap printers that have oddball page description languages or > "host-based" printers which expect bitmaps only, and in a specific format. > Some of these printers require a firmware download before they can do > anything. > > openprinting.org doesn't list a Business Inkjet 5000, so I can't tell what > PDLs it understands. >