Parallel Port Printing Blues

Robert Marella marella at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Nov 16 11:08:45 PST 2004


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:01:33 -0800
Karl Agee <kdagee at hotmail.com> 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.
> 

Hello Karl

I have a HP DeskJet 890C working on 5.3 Stable. I found this howto to help the most.

http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html

I also execute  "lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0" at boot with a shell located at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

Good Luck

Robert


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