Cannot connect to printer...

gabriel normal1.lists at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 11:19:35 PST 2005


You might wanna look at www.linuxprinting.org, see if it can use hpjis
as a driver.
If so, then you can follow what they recommend.

Cheers!


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:13:05 -0600, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> Kiffin Gish wrote:
> 
> >Like I said, this is just my laptop connected to a printer via the parallel
> >port.
> >
> >Nothing to do with Windows, Samba nor a web server.
> >
> >I'll be happy enough if I can get the basics up and running.
> >
> >--------------------------------------------
> >Kiffin Gish
> >Gouda, The Netherlands
> >
> >
> 
> You might try installing apsfilter to do some of this
> work for you.  Last time I did it, it took care of driver
> selection and /etc/printcap configuration quite well and
> automagically, with a shell "setup" script that only asked a
> few questions that needed my input.
> 
> It's in ports (/usr/ports/print/apsfilter), and you might
> be able to find out it your printer would work with it
> at www.apsfilter.org (I'm pretty sure it would....)
> 
> It's nice software, IMHO, and who knows, maybe Andreas
> doesn't yet have a postcard from your location....
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
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