Newbie USB Printer Problem

[Alex Kelly]

No particular reason I tried lpd.
I'll try CUPS and see what happens.

On Saturday 08 November 2003 07:53 pm, Chris Howells wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Sunday 09 November 2003 00:44, Alex Kelly wrote:
> > I cannot get my HP Deskjet 3420 printer to work. I've read all the prior
> > posts for USB printers, checked the handbook and the complete freebsd
> > book. After doing so, I've come up with this...
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> Any particular reason to use lpd? Without trying to start a holy war, I
> personally much prefer CUPS, it's far easier to configure (just go to
> http:// localhost:631), and combined with the hpijs port works perfectly
> without any messing about with my HP DeskJet 3820.
>
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> Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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