ulpt0 and cheap ink-jet printer

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Monday 29 March 2010 11:26:33 Steve Brownjohn wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm having no luck in getting a cheap HP printer - DeskJet 3940 - to
> work with FreeBSD 8. It shows up as connected to ulpt0, but won't
> respond to lp / lpr even with appropriate printcap settings.
> 
> I'm guessing that the fact that I can't # cat file > /dev/ulpt0 has
> something to do with it, perhaps the printer requires a filter to print
> anything.
> 
> At a pinch, I'll go down the HPLIP route - CUPS on its own didn't work,
> even with a ulpt-less kernel - but I only want to print plain text
> files!
> 
> thanks for any ideas you may have,
> 
> Steve
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> 
> <mailto:Steve.Brownjohn at Hackney.gov.uk>

Have you tried /dev/unlpt0 ?

--HPS