Deep in printer hell.

Maarten Sanders maarfree at xs4all.nl
Wed Sep 14 12:28:46 PDT 2005


Relax,

Take a coffee, sit back and read and the chapters from the handbook up
to and including 9.3.1.3. When you have a parallel port configured I
recommend apsfilter to do the rest. It took me about 2 minutes to
configure a parallel printer. (HP 870 CXi).

Good luck,
Maarten

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 20:49 +0200, FreeBsdBeni wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 09:58, WOB wrote:
> > 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
> 
> For my HP (PhotoSmart) I had to install /print/cups, /print/foomatic-filters 
> and /print/hpijs and then configured the printer using the .ppd file from 
> www.linuxprinting.org. Now I can print from within every program.
> Mine is a usb printer, but I suppose your parallel printer should work in a 
> similar way.
> Hope this helps.



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