Sudev Barar wrote: > > > Ram, > There are few printers from HP that run under Linux but need > "initialising" when powered on. HP1005/1010 are two such printers. I > do not remember the URL for this information but linuxprinting.org > site gave me the work around and as long as the printer remains > powered on it will keep working with whatever driver you load. > You have to initialise the printer by giving a cat command and a > download srcipt. I can look up thursday if you do not find any > solution. Today being holiday at office. Alternatively google for this > pon mailing list, I remember (vaguely) posting this solution a year or > more back. > Hi,
Actually posting the solution would really help We have searched the net and got the following links ad even followed them up. But we are probably missing something somewhere - and the we are all non techies - so there is a good chance of missing something obvious. Yesterday we tried the following (with regards to the HP 1005). followed the links at http://wiki.clug.org.za/clugwiki/index.php/Adding_an_HP_LaserJet_1000_to_Linux http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1005 I think I repeated what Vivek did earlier - to try and get some response - even a damn blinking LED from the printer but zilch first I did this $ wget http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz $ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz $ cd foo2zjs Then I followed the following instructions Now compile and install it. The INSTALL file contains more detailed instructions; please read it now. Compile: $ make (Optional) Get extra files from the web, such as .ICM profiles for color correction, and firmware: $ ./getweb 1005 # Get HP LJ1005 firmware file Then I did this: Install driver, foomatic XML files, and extra files: $ su # make install After this I tried gnome-cups-manager the print manager and tried to install and stuff but it continues to show both pbmtozjs and foo2zjs- but nothing seems to happen. I even tried the following sudo gedit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 1.Find the the LogLevel option: LogLevel info and change the line to: LogLevel none – changed to this on Oct 11th 2005 Save, exit, and type in the command $ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart still nothing *Are you suggesting that I do this* cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1005.dl > /dev/usb/lp0 in cups script: /etc/init.d/cupsys I can open the said cupsys file and edit it ad add the line , the question is where - the file (when opened in gedit ) has a lot of colors and operators or whateever they are called. That am willing to try Secondly, would't I need to do this once the printer is working ?? which at the moment it is not. regards ram > -- > Sudev Barar > Learning Linux > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
