Re: USB printer installation(How to do)

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Telmo Filipe Tavares da Silva wrote:

 I have an HP / DeskJet 3650 printer and wish to install it on my Debian
 Sarge OS. I have read documentation over linuxprinting and installed
 cups, but whenever I install my printer throw printconf, which
 supposely should be on /dev/usb/lp0, it istalls it over
 usb://3650?serial=TH39J1800Z6B.

I've never used 'printconf' - the web-based CUPS interface at
'http://127.0.0.1:631' has always worked fine for me.

 When I try to print the printer doesn't respond. It doesn't move an inch.
 Should it default to that port? In the web interface of cups, /dev/usb/lp0
 isn't present. How should I do it?

When I use the CUPS web-based interface, I see a large listing of USB ports
(USB Printer #1, #2, etc). Just choose the first USB Printer number.

Adam


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Re: USB printer installation(How to do)

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:56:27 +, Telmo Filipe Tavares da Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have an HP / DeskJet 3650 printer and wish to install it on my Debian
 Sarge OS. I have read documentation over linuxprinting and installed
 cups, but whenever I install my printer throw printconf, which
 supposely should be on /dev/usb/lp0, it istalls it over
 usb://3650?serial=TH39J1800Z6B. When I try to print the printer
 doesn't respond. It doesn't move an inch. Should it default to that
 port? In the web interface of cups, /dev/usb/lp0 isn't present. How
 should I do it? Can anyone help?

I just went through this with a DJ3845 on Sid.  I had trouble getting
cups to work, so I went with lprng instead.  Here's the printcap entry
that made everything work:

lp|HP Deskjet printer entry:\
:lp=/dev/usb/lp0: \
:force_localhost: \
:if=/usr/bin/foomatic-rip: \
:ppd=/var/spool/lpd/lp/HP-DeskJet_3840-hpijs.ppd: \
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: \
:mx#0:sh:

It could be that all you need at this point (noticing the need to use
/dev/usb/lp0 instead of /dev/lp0 was my final hurdle after abandoning
cups, not that I'm proud of that...) is to grab the ppd file from
http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi?driver=hpijsprinter=HP-DeskJet_3840show=0
(unless, of course, you've already done this) and put it in
/etc/cups/ppd/ if you're using cups or the location specified by the
:ppd= line if you're using lprng.  Also make sure you have hpijs
installed.

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Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh


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