At Wednesday, 12 June 2002, Harry Ohlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >My faithful old HP Laserjet 4MP has finally kicked the bucket :- (. So, I'm >looking to replace it with something reasonably good, but as cheap as >possible. > >A number of the cheaper printers I've seen on the market seem to only have USB >connectors. I know there's USB support in Linux for printers, but I imagine, >like most things, only some subset of the available USB printers are usable. > >I'd be interested to hear any success stories, to save myself buying one that >turns out not to work. > >In case it's important, I'll probably be connecting this to a machine running >Redhat 7.2 with a 2.4.18 kernel. If it's going to make a big difference in >terms of the number of compatible printers, I could potentially connect it to >another machine that's running Redhat 7.3 out-of-the-box. > >I'd be more interested in connecting to the first machine, for two reasons: I >know its USB controller works under Linux (I'm sync-ing my Clie via USB); and >that machine is in the room I work most of the time.
I got my HP Deskjet 930C running using CUPS pretty easily. Modprobe usbprinter (WARNING:Module name from memory there!) and then find your way to the nearest CUPS admin interface (http or commandline). I was happy enough with black and white, but did manage to coax a colour print out of it once or twice too. Steve -- "We live in an age of continuous partial attention." --Ms. Linda Stone, researcher and VP at Microsoft http://www.helmsdeep.net/capn-k/ Linux | Windows | CAD | Audio Visualisation and more -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
