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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