Parallel Port Printing Blues

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Tue Nov 16 01:15:45 PST 2004


On Tuesday 16 November 2004 02:01 am, Karl Agee wrote:
> I have a Freebsd 4.10-stable system that I am having problems getting
> parallel port printing to work on.
>
> The printer is an old HP DeskJet 820C Winprinter
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_820C that
> works well on the same box in Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Official.
>
> I have cups installed and running, have the ppd file from
> linuxprinting.org and can get onto the cups admin interface ok.  I have
> configured the printer using both cups and apsfilter.
>
I know that with pnm2ppa and a special filter I downloaded from somewhere 
(might have been linuxprinting.org) that I got an 820C working on a 5.x 
system a few months ago.  If I remember I'll grab the instructions from 
that system when I can get to that system Friday.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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