Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:37, Thomas Kear wrote: Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022. 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi. They could have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but it doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you wouldn't be printing on a BW laser printer of this price anyway). No problems connecting via USB (HP even include a USB cable, not a common thing nowadays), for a small amount more money the 1022n comes with inbuilt ethernet. Mine is attached to an external JetDirect which seems to work fine as well. More info from linuxprinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1022 I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to worry about. By the looks you should be able to make one yours for under USD$200. Damn, that's a good price... I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker apart from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the paper to feed an envelope else you get a piece of paper infront of the envelope the printing goes on the paper instead. I also have a PSC1210. All-in-one job. I've had one problem with that under an older kernel that wouldn't create the device nodes properly (Umm... Fro memory the nodes were there, but you couldn't write to them). H pgpG92Q8BnouX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Friday 26 January 2007 4:32 am, Hamie wrote: Damn, that's a good price... I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker apart from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the paper to feed an envelope else you get a piece of paper infront of the envelope the printing goes on the paper instead. I also have a PSC1210. All-in-one job. I've had one problem with that under an older kernel that wouldn't create the device nodes properly (Umm... Fro memory the nodes were there, but you couldn't write to them). H The manual feed slot on my 1022 seems to actually function as such, overrides the sheet feeder for as long as it has items in it. Envelopes seem to be fine, although they make horrible crinkling noises going through the printer, every time I wonder if it's going to screw itself into a little ball somewhere in the fuser and cause me grief (this appears to be all bark and no bite though, I have yet to have an actual problem, despite my use of self-sealing envelopes that the manual specifically warns against lest they decide to apply their adhesive to the inside of your printer). More than one envelope sitting in the manual feed slot at once though? this I have not tried. --Thomas pgpskTlU9BauI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
2007/1/24, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. You can take a look here [1]. There is a printer and driver database where you can look which printer works under linux. Normally HP printers are working very well as HP provides drivers [2] for Linux. [1] http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting [2] http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ I personally use a HP Buisness Inkjet 1000 which does a good job. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
2007/1/24, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:33, Carl Adams wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. Thanks Carl Adams I use a HP deskjet 3845, works fine with no obvious problems Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 Serial Port #2 None of these seem appropriate. 2. The Device URI. When I check /var/log/messages it gives the mount-point as: /devices/pci:00/:00:10.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.3/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0 When supplied to CUPS this results in a successful install after enabling FileDevice in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but printing a test page produces the error message: /usr/libexec/cups/backend//devices/pci failed Many thanks for any assistance with this. Carl Adams. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:32, Carl Adams wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 Serial Port #2 None of these seem appropriate. Hi, make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups. Then there should appear something like hp:/ in that list. I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly. I hope it will help, otherwise, feel free to ask :) -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 Serial Port #2 I don't know why USB Printer doesn't show up in the list. Have you enabled the ppds USE flag? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. Thanks Carl Adams I have a Brother HL-5140, it is working fine with CUPS through SAMBA, because the machine is attached to a Windows XP PC, and I have linux in an old Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT Laptop PC. When you review the list of foomatic ready, you will see also a lot of printers ready to work with Linux using CUPS. Sigfrido -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On 24 January 2007 18:32, Carl Adams wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 Serial Port #2 None of these seem appropriate. Plug the printer in and switch it on. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:32:20 +1000, Carl Adams wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. There's no need to download and install manually, just emerge hplip. -- Neil Bothwick Warp 5.. engage. No, no, Mr. Data, more clutch! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022. 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi. They could have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but it doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you wouldn't be printing on a BW laser printer of this price anyway). No problems connecting via USB (HP even include a USB cable, not a common thing nowadays), for a small amount more money the 1022n comes with inbuilt ethernet. Mine is attached to an external JetDirect which seems to work fine as well. More info from linuxprinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1022 I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to worry about. By the looks you should be able to make one yours for under USD$200. --Thomas On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:33 am, Carl Adams wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. Thanks Carl Adams pgpaMumRwHNrq.pgp Description: PGP signature
