[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brett wrote:
jlquinn wrote:
I posted several days ago about the lack of success I'm having with
an HP 5440 (regular inkjet). I have hpijs installed (the debian
package), but the HP tools can't find the printer and hence nothing
works for me.
I see the printer device show up in the kernel log when I plug it
into USB. However, beyond that, I've got a paperweight, despite the
fact that this printer is supposed to work perfectly.
Alright, I now do have some better suggestions. Getting cups to
recognise the printer wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, mostly
because I had forgot all the steps and the required order of them.
Basically the steps which I did was:
1. Install hpijs, hplip, foomatic-db-hpijs (and dependencies), run
hp-probe to try and detect your printer
2. I still had to goto linuxprinting.org and download the PPD file for
my printer and copy it to /usr/share/cups/model
3. Open a webbrowser and goto localhost:631 (login as root)
4. Add printer (select the "hp:xxxx" device not the "usb:xxx" device)
5. It worked
Hi, thanks for following up.
The problem I was having was a low-level problem with the printer not
being properly recognized on the USB bus. hp-probe would claim there
was no printer installed, even though the kernel saw it there.
It turns out that the printer was conflicting with a QuickCam I also had
plugged in. Once I removed the QuickCam, the printer was recognized
perfectly and I could finish up the setup and print without any problems.
So, now I have a working printer. The quickcam is another story, but
I'll work on debugging that another day.
Thanks,
Jerry Quinn
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