*BSD News Article 96694


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.caldera.com!news.eli.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!masternews.telia.net!newsfeed2.telia.com!news
From: Lars Forsberg <forla@nts.mh.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: HP820Cxi with FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 12:38:50 +0200
Organization: Telia Internet Services
Lines: 10
Message-ID: <3392A2BA.1E03@nts.mh.se>
NNTP-Posting-Host: d2o30.telia.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I)
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42035

I have a HP DeskJet 820Cxi. HP does not provide support for this printer except
for Win3.1/Win95. It's also the first printer in the DeskJet 800 series that
doesn't use the PCL language. It has its own language called PPA (Printing
Performance Architecture).

I want it to work in FreeBSD, but I can't get it to work since ghostscript can
talk PCL but not PPA. A solution would be a PPA2PCL program for UNIX. Has anyone
heard of such a program or maybe found another solution to this problem? 

/ Lars