HP Deskjet 720C ...

dgmm freebsd01 at dgmm.net
Sun Aug 13 20:12:06 UTC 2006


On Sunday 13 August 2006 12:27, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> Did you try postscript printing with a2ps and LPD?
>
> If the printer listens at TCP port 515, then I think
> yo u are set. Make sure you have LPRng.
>
> To test that, just try telnet <hp-printer-ip> 515 and
> see if it connects.
>
> If that goes thro' you only have to export a shell
> variable and you can print.
>
> export PRINTER=lp at hp-printer-ip

FWIW an HP720c is bottom end inkjet, parallel only, windows GDI printer.


-- 
Dave


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