Re: Deep in printer hell.

2005-09-14 Thread Maarten Sanders
Relax, Take a coffee, sit back and read and the chapters from the handbook up to and including 9.3.1.3. When you have a parallel port configured I recommend apsfilter to do the rest. It took me about 2 minutes to configure a parallel printer. (HP 870 CXi). Good luck, Maarten On Wed, 2005-09-14 a

Re: Deep in printer hell.

2005-09-14 Thread FreeBsdBeni
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 09:58, WOB wrote: > When JFK said, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the > other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..", I > always wondered what exactly "the other things" were. Apparently, one > of them is printer configura

Re: Deep in printer hell.

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
WOB wrote: When JFK said, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..", I always wondered what exactly "the other things" were. Apparently, one of them is printer configuration under FreeBSD. If I am using a HP De

Re: Deep in printer hell.

2005-09-14 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/14/05, WOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When JFK said, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the > other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..", I > always wondered what exactly "the other things" were. Apparently, one > of them is printer configura

Re: Deep in printer hell.

2005-09-14 Thread albi
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:58:43 -0400 WOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I am using a HP Deskjet 940 connected via parallel cable, is there > not some simple way of configuring this printer? > > Is it really necessary to follow all the steps in the handbook - just to > print? The "Basic Setup"

Deep in printer hell.

2005-09-14 Thread WOB
When JFK said, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..", I always wondered what exactly "the other things" were. Apparently, one of them is printer configuration under FreeBSD. If I am using a HP Deskjet 940