Can I use an HP printer

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:38:14PM +1000, Bob wrote:
> 
>    Hello
>    I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer.
>    It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under
>    FreeBSD 6.2.

According to the HP pages, it only supports host-based printer
languages. I.e. it's a win-printer. You can get it to mostly work using
foo2hp: http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/

For printer questions in general have a look at this page:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi 


Roland
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