[linux-help] Re: HP 722C Printer Help

[Steve Owens <sowens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Rose wrote:

> Steve Owens wrote:
> >
> > This weekend I added a new hard drive to my computer, and installed
> > Redhat 6.1 on it.  Unfortunately, somehow, the installation formatted my
> > slave drive, and I lost all my data.  I had Redhat 6.0 installed there.
> > But now everything is gone.  The problem is that I need to set my
> > printer up again.  I have a HP DeskJet 722C.  When I set it up in 6.0,
> > someone gave me a link to some printer utility to print to these
> > printers.  But since all my data is gone off my old box, I have no clue
> > :-)  Does anyone know what I should use to get this printer working.  I
> > think it was something like pbprint or something, but I can't find it.
> > All I remember is that I had to setup a printcap which sent the output
> > through this app, and it could print both postscript and text.
>
> I last setup a HP 694C under RH 5.2 and used the 'Control Panel -
> Printer Setup' in X to set it up ... and it was done (it also was a
> piece of cake for the SuSE boxes to send remote print jobs to that RH
> 5.2 Linux print server ...
>
> Now the printer is on a different box with SuSE 6.3 ... not quite as
> easy to set up as was with Red Hat ... but is there something so
> different with your 722C model?
>
> Jeff
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I am not sure what exactly the difference was, but it was different.  The
printer is not exactly a win printer, but from what I rember, the explination
was that some printer manufacturers took shortcuts, and that it acts the same
as a win printer.


---Steve


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