I'm in the same boat as you. I also bought a HP 722C thinking it would
work under Linux. Problem is, as I have come to know too well, the 720
series is a windows only printer. HP hasn't released any info on the
protocols and they are closed source so noone in the Linux community can
write the proper drivers. I did get Mandrake 5.3 to print ghostscript
files (someone reverse engineered the protocols), but while tinkering with
low level configs I accidentally wiped out my hard drive, so I don't know
where the files are and I haven't been able to find them on the net again
(haven't had the time to look either). Try looking around Linux newsgroup
archives because that is where I found the info the first time. And one
last thing. If you do get it entirely working, let me know! Good luck.
Petey
At 07:08 PM 7/8/1999 PDT, you wrote:
>What's up people. I can't seem to get mandrake 6.0 to recognize my printer. I
>have a HP 722c deskjet. Linux recognized the port on installation but the 700
>series printer was not on the list. So I chose the 500-600 category. This did
>not work. I used printtool but that was similer to my options at
installation.
>I would appreciate some advice. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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