I used an HP driver on my epson, and it worked. try epson drivers on your
HP. Supposedly they are somewhat interchangable.
At 01:54 PM 9/10/00 -0600, Mark Thurston wrote:
>I tried different drivers, all of the HP drivers, actually, and not one of
>them worked. The closest one was the 1000 series (PPA) and it sent data to
>the printer, but alas, after about 10 minutes of waiting, nothing happened.
>Is there anything else that I can try?
>
>Mark
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:13 AM
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer problems
>
>
> > John Rye wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mark Thurston wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in
> > > > Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the
> >
> > > Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a reference
> > > to earlier HP Deskjets which it is similar to.
> >
> > it's also the case that if you cursor through the list, the printsetup
> > will provide some assistance in that it pops up info about each driver
> > and other printers it may work with.
> >
> > I believe it's also the case that v7.2 is going to switch to cups as
> > its printer facility and I've noticed that in cups there's a really
> > large set of printer drivers for HP.
> >
> > > As a last resort - you can use the lowest common denominator which
> > > in your case will be HP Deskjet - the caveat here is that it will
> > > only print in black (or dark green if you have a colour cartridge)
> >
> > If the 722 is a color printer that uses the standard two-cartridge
> > (black + color) setup, I suspect that either the 560 or 880 driver
> > will work as both work on my 812C.
> >
> > Cheers --- Larry
> >
> >
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