I never thought I'd see the day, but I *finally* got my FreeBSD machine working with my HP printer. I've dealt with this problem on and off for so long I don't remember when I started. I've been down lots of rabbit trails too. In the end, the thing that got it to work was gunzipping the ppd file and using it instead of whatever default drivers cups came up with, despite the fact that they matched my printer series. But before I got to that point, I went through lots of other things, correcting errors. I even made my own patch--though now I think it was unneccessary. The one good thing in this I suppose is it finally got me out of the package system and into ports. There are still some packages that I need to get rid of though. Now i understand what nod meant about 'living in ports.'
And even though I'm excited about my progress, I'm not done yet. I can print from the FreeBSD machine, but the goal is to be able to print from anywhere in the house. And then I need to make sure that scanning works too. Maybe I need to buy that VGA card after all. Remote scanning sounds cool, but its probably more practical to scan from the computer that's connected to the scanner.
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