USB Printer

Marc Wiz marc at wiz.com
Sun Apr 6 20:00:50 PDT 2003


On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 08:09:52PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:53:02AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> >
> > Please show the exact command you gave in Linux.  According to
> > linuxprinting.org, hpijs is used to print on this printer (i.e., it's a
> > Winprinter).
> 
> Okay, the good news is the Deskjet 656C is *not* a Winprinter.  From the
> above site: "Printer supports direct text printing with the `us-ascii`
> charset."

> 
> That would mean that FreeBSD's USB code doesn't like it, which would be
> the bad news.

True.

I am working on compiling the hpijs driver and associated stuff.
We'll see what happens.

Marc

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