Ahhhhhhh! I feel certain I had done this before (deleted the printer and re-added it with CUPS after installing hplip) but I now believe I was locked in to the old mind frame of knowing the printer is usb and always choosing the first usb printer--"USB Printer #1"--never looking up further in the list to notice the "hp:/usb/Deskjet_3840?..." entry. Thanks for giving me the encouragement to run through that one more time and for pointing out where to focus my attention. I had completely missed the "hp:/usb/Deskjet_3840?..." entry before and now see what the README means by the "CUPS backend installed by hplip". This was not making any sense previously.
'toolbox' finds my printer now and I may have a much better idea of what is wrong with it when it is blinking and clearly unhappy with something. I can monitor ink levels and run maintenance operations on it to boot! Thanks!!! Paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Maurits van Rees-- > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:32:46PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Although I've already configured the printer with CUPS and the > > printer works fine, I'm not sure what "...and the hp: CUPS backend > > (installed by hplip)" means. I would guess that when I pick the > > correct model of HP from the list within the CUPS web installation that > > the "proper PPD" will be used. Not sure about how to make sure the > > "hp: CUPS backend [is] installed by hplip". > > Just last week I installed an new HP printer with hplip. In CUPS go > to Printers. Then add a printer. Enter a name. You should now see a > small list of possible devices, like parallel port. In my case at > least: if my printer is off I see a device "hp no_device_found". When > my printer is on and I try this again... O dear, I see exactly the > same. :( Well, that might be because the real device is already > occupied by my printer so CUPS doesn't show it as available. On the > Printers page I see "hp:/usb/psc_1310_series..." as the device URI. If > you take the same route I guess you will see something similar. > > HTH, > > -- > Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] > Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 > "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." > - Winston Churchill -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================== ==Proudly brought to you by Mutt== ================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]