Getting CUPS to use hpijs

[Lars Eighner]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jon Drews wrote:

> 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24
> Ports I have installed:
> cups-base-1.1.23.0_3
> cups-lpr-1.1.23.0
> cups-pstoraster-7.07_3
> cups-lpr-1.1.23.0
> hpijs-1.7.1
>
> Printer: HP Deskjet 3740
>
> Hi:
>
> I can't get my HP3740 Deskjet to print using CUPS. I installed cups
> from ports. I also installed print /hpijs with  # make WITH_CUPS=yes.
> Nevertheless, I can't find any of the appropriate *.ppd files. Is
> there a particular order the hpijs and cups ports have to be installed
> in ? If I install hpijs without the CUPS option, then the *.ppd's are
> all in /usr/local/share/ppd.
>
> I have this printer working in OpenBSD, under lpr, so it does indeed
> work. I use
> the HP-DeskJet_3740-hpijs.ppd.

I don't know what all I did to get my (different) hp printer
working, but everything got much better after I installed
foomatic.


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