hp deskjet 5150

[Alain De Vos]

Indeed. Mine is Brother MFC. No drivers on FreeBSD or many Linux distro's. Must do some tests sending directly to lp. It works with a toner.

 

[scottro]

My Brother MFC (laser) works without any Brother drivers. I use the everywhere driver--not only on FreeBSD but also tested on several Linux distributions.

 

[fernandel]

Someone gave me an old hp deskjet 5150. How would I go about finding out if I can do anything useful with it from FreeBSD?

I have more than 20 years old Hp business Inkjet 3000 and I have installed cups and hplip and hplip plugins. Long time I am using USB connection but also long time I had network connection.
First cupsd must run and than open hplip manager and try to install.

 

[sko]

Indeed. Mine is Brother MFC. No drivers on FreeBSD or many Linux distro's. Must do some tests sending directly to lp. It works with a toner.

if it isn't supported by print/brlaser just use the generic hp laserjet PCL driver. I'm printing on various MFCs here @work via the hp emulation.