On Thursday 18 September 2003 02:33 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:53, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:35 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 08:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > > On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > > > The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like > > > > > me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. > > > > > > > > Depends on the model. I have a HP PSC950 and it worked out of the > > > > box with Mandrake version 9 and 9.1, with no changes whatsoever. > > > > Granted, I can't control the fax portion from Linux, but printing, > > > > scanning, and accessing smart media cards from the printer all work > > > > without any problems or configuration changes in Mandrake. > > > > > > > > I have heard other people talk about having problems but in most > > > > cases, those are related to homegrown or less friendly Linux > > > > distributions or other issues like USB support, etc. > > > > > > The PSC 1250 uses somthing called the HP lightweight printer langage > > > and is supposed to work thru CUPS but I have had no luck. I have been > > > told that what I need is the CVS version of HPIJS, but,hell I'm a > > > dummie How do I get it? meanwhile the Samsung ML-4500 laser printer > > > works just fine.(only B&W tho. > > > > I am definitely not trying to be a smart ass here, HP does not list a PSC > > 1250 on their site. They do list a 1205 and a 2105, but not a 1250. Can > > I ask you to confirm what model printer you have? > > PSC 1210 bought it at sears $99.00
Well, you are right in that the printer that you have is not currently well supported under Linux. This has nothing to do with Mandrake in particular, but hardware support for Linux in general. HP only just started releasing software drivers for this particular hardware architecture in 11/2002, it takes a while for the Linux community to catch up to new releases. The short story seems to be that you can print with existing drivers (hpijs) but not scan, or you can scan with existing drivers (hpoj) but not print, or you can download and compile the latest bleeding edge version of hpoj (1.3), in which case you can do both. In order to get this version, you need to pull from the CVS repository which is where the developers store the current source code as they are working on it. The version you need for both printing and scanning is simply too new to be readily available, it is not considered stable yet and that means that there are no binaries, certainly none supported by Mandrake. HP itself usually only releases drivers covering printing which is supported by the current versions of drivers available under Mandrake Linux. The open source community has been building drivers to support scanning itself, but this does tend to lag a bit behind the latest hardware releases. I could start the process of explaining how to do this stuff but I would expect major problems in getting the code compiled since there is no way to control for dependencies and no real way of knowing what tools and packages are required. It is likely that you would have to compile and upgrade other packages that the code would be dependent upon and the only way to find out would be to pour through comments and notations from the developers. For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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