#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver how to#
#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver driver#
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#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver software#

To install, do the same as you did for CUPS above. If not, then you can download this from the CUPS website as source. If not check your installation cd's to see if you can find it, ready compiled for you system. Ghostscript essential for most Linux printing and so is almost always installed by default. Ghostscript converts a file into a format understood by most printers, or in this case a standard bitmap format which can be understood by a filter (pnm2ppa). Installing Ghostscript & Ghostscript Fonts This should be a case of unpacking the downloaded archive, tar -zxvf changing to the unpacked directory then typing the usual./configure If yours doesn't, download and compile the CUPS source from the CUPS website. Slackware 9.0 comes with CUPS in the extras directory, many other distributions come with CUPS too. Although it comes with more features than the average user needs, it is useful if you want to, say set up network printing. Installing CUPS.ĬUPS in brief, organises printing jobs. Note: most of the rest of these commands need to be done as 'root'.

#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver software#

If you have all this software installed, then you can skip to the last section.

#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver driver#

CUPS PPD driver for your printer /usr/share/cups/model/HP-Deskjet_XXXC-pnm2ppa-ppd.ppd Ghostscript & Ghostscript Fonts /usr/share/ghostscript & /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts pnm2ppa /usr/local/bin/pnm2ppa CUPS /usr/share/cups foomatic-rip & foomatic-gswrapper /usr/local/bin or somewhere else in your path. The software can be typically found in the following places for Slackware. If nothing comes up, chances are that you don't have it on your system Do a locate for cupsomatic to see if this is installed.įinally, for pnm2ppa, type which pnm2ppa since it should be in your path. To see if you have the PPD driver for your printer, locate the cups directory and look through the files under the model directory. If you get a webpage, then cups is installed. To check, change to root and run cupsd, then visit in your web browser. If you have it on your system, chances are that cups is installed.

If this exisits and has plenty of fonts in this directory (mine has about 160 files), then the chances are that the Ghostscript Fonts are installed. To see if you have the fonts installed, find your ghostscript directory using locate and check the directory within that called fonts. Type gs -version at a terminal, if you get a version number then Ghostscript is installed. Ghostscript and Ghostscript fonts are usually already installed on Linux systems.

pnm2ppa (a filter for Ghostscript, key for these printers.).

foomatic-rip and foomatic-gswrapper (wrappers for CUPS.).

The following software needs to be installed.

Linux users were confounded because HP weren't interested in developing and supporting new software for this, essentially, short-lived series of printers and furthermore were even more reluctant to reveal its colour processing technology to the open source community.įortunately, open-source programmers have come to the rescue and have developed the software necessary to use these printers in Linux. After realising this wasn't such a great idea, HP discontinued this series of printers. The processing software for these printers were released for Windows and Macintosh only. To save money on processing hardware inside the printer, HP devised a system where part of the processing was done on the host computer and the printer was fed the result. My machine runs Slackware 9.0, (a fairly standard Linux distribution) and a Hewlett Packard 720C printer.

#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver full#

If you are less used to installing Linux software, then you may want to read the full guide. If you are a confident Linux user, then you may want to refer to the summary for the impatient at the bottom.

#Hp deskjet 722c printer driver how to#

This guide gives details on how to set up such a printer in Linux using CUPS. The above series of printers, sometimes known as 'winprinters', requires extra software for them to function in Linux. Once Ghostscript + Fonts and CUPS are installed, other HP printers will likely only need setting up.