Deep in printer hell.
WOB
wayofbsd at verizon.net
Wed Sep 14 00:59:12 PDT 2005
When JFK said, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the
other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..", I
always wondered what exactly "the other things" were. Apparently, one
of them is printer configuration under FreeBSD.
If I am using a HP Deskjet 940 connected via parallel cable, is there
not some simple way of configuring this printer?
Is it really necessary to follow all the steps in the handbook - just to
print? The "Basic Setup" instructions are 15 pages printed. Assuming
you can print them.
I got this printer working 6 months ago under FreeBSD, and apparently my
many notes on it are too many. Now I'm starting from scratch, to
redocument it, and it just seems like there should be a simpler way.
I'm using 5.4, Fluxbox, Abiword, and Firefox - that's it.
Eventually I will figure it out again, I just wanted to know if there
was some simple script I could run, or "preferred short-cut" for setting
up desktop printer. I realize the handbook is written to be precise and
server-centric, but I just want to print Yahoo driving directions, and
other such things.
thanks
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