Parallel Port Printing Blues

[Karl Agee]

>From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7 at osu.edu>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>CC: Karl Agee <kdagee at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Parallel Port Printing Blues
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:18:04 -0500
>
>On Tuesday 16 November 2004 02:01 am, Karl Agee wrote:
> > I have a Freebsd 4.10-stable system that I am having problems getting
> > parallel port printing to work on.
> >
> > The printer is an old HP DeskJet 820C Winprinter
> > http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_820C that
> > works well on the same box in Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Official.
> >
> > I have cups installed and running, have the ppd file from
> > linuxprinting.org and can get onto the cups admin interface ok.  I have
> > configured the printer using both cups and apsfilter.
> >
>I know that with pnm2ppa and a special filter I downloaded from somewhere
>(might have been linuxprinting.org) that I got an 820C working on a 5.x
>system a few months ago.  If I remember I'll grab the instructions from
>that system when I can get to that system Friday.
>
>--
>Anish Mistry

Thanks Anish, I already have pnm2ppa installed.  I think it's more of a 
parallel port problem tho.

--Karl

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