I will try cups, since it's in the ports collection. I had hoped to use what was available on the system. I mean, lpd should work, unless it has become old and antiquated to the point of being unusuable...
I keep hearing good things about CUPS, but if it won't print to a printer with an IP address, I may have wasted my money. The idea is to not have to hook this printer up to another computer and print through the host. I want to print directly to the printer... Bryan On 2/8/07, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/8/07, Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently bought myself an excellent little 6300 series All-in-one HP > > printer. I wanted to be able to print, and scan, but right now, I > > will just try to print. It has networking, and an IP on our home > > network. > > Bryan: > > I think CUPS has the capability to do network printing. However > Icould not get CUPS to work and used the regular lpd spooler printing > instead. I can post instructions on lpd using *.ppd files, if you > want. As for the HPLIP, I know little about it. I saw this link: > HP Linux Imaging and Printing > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html > I bet you can run this in /emul/linux/usr/bin/ > > Again if you want the lpd instructions for using foomatic-rip and > *.ppd, I can post them here. > > -- > Kind regards, > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies > _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
