There is a way you can run the HP 720 under Mandrake, but it requires a
little bit of effort. The program is beta, but what isn't for Linux, and
it's called pnm2ppa. I also own an HP 720, but after trying out this beta
software, I was very impressed with the results. My advice is to read up on
it at www.sourceforge.com. You can find some RPMs for Mandrake on that site
also, along with some instructions on setting it up. If you're willing to
put the effort into, which pretty much is just following the directions step
by step, you'll be very happy with the results. Good Luck.
~Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 10:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Win Printers and Mandrake
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:13 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Win Printers and Mandrake
> After reading an article that calls printers made to only work with
software
> for windows WinPrinters, I wanted to ask if there will be any added
support
> for them in the Mandrake distrobution. I have the HP 720C and after
having
> it recognised in Mandrake 7, I became frustrated that I could not use it
> until I read this article. Please let me know what I can do to get it to
> work and how you guys are working to get it to work in the later
> distrobutions. Thank you for the clairifaction of the install process.
> Kudos on my favorite distro!
To shorten what could become a very long reply, it is HP and not Mandrake,
that must supply the driver for your printer. At this time, I would suggest
that you sell the printer to someone who runs MS Windows exclusively and
purchase a printed supported in Linux, or copy the files to your Windows
partition and re-boot to Windows to do the printing. I have heard that some
are able to print by connecting to Windows box with the printer over a
network using samba. No matter what you do, contact HP and politely request
Linux support for your printer; they are supposed to be re-inventing
themselves nowadays and maybe they will listen.
Hoyt
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