[cups.general] Printing to HP multli-function devices

[John Meshkoff]

I have the use of a HP OfficeJet R40xi, but I could not successfully
install the HP multifunction driver package on my older systems. 

I found out  that this printer, as with most other older,
parallel-connect HP printers, can be printed to using a generic HP
laserjet driver (I found out by accident while using DOS AutoCAD 10, and
tried printing on a hunch; acad has a driver for the original LaserJet
printers, and acad printed to this printer perfectly!). 

It appears that most older HP printers use the same basic print engine

I altered the printer in CUPS to use the generic laserjet.ppd, and it
prints just fine.

My oldest system is a 2.2 kernel with CUPS v1.1.14., here is the tail of
the driver ppd:

*%
*% End of "$Id: laserjet.ppd,v 1.10 2002/01/02 17:59:08 mike Exp $".
*%
..

HTH, John

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