Printer problems

Jon Drews jon.drews at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 10:51:57 PDT 2004


Hello Earl:

Linux Printing  Org  does not show your particular printer:
All Compaq printers
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Compaq

Linux Printing Org lists the availability of CUPS drivers.

You may be able to get it working with CUPS. I have a short tutorial
here for NetBSD. It is almost the same in FreeBSD.

http://www.silbsd.org/CUPS-NetBSD_landscape.html


On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:58:54 -0500, Earl Larsen <elarsen2 at cox.net> wrote:
> I tried to get my printer to work. But when I do lptest > /dev/lpt0. I get no
> out put. I checked and have everything correct. So I am thinking that my
> printer is not compatible. I have a Compaq IJ700. I am unable to find if this
> printer is compatible. I am running FreeBSD 4.10. Grep


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