Which driver for HP 3650 and why can't I print to it via Samba?

[Stephen Walton]

I bought a new HP DeskJet 3650 printer last night to replace my aging 
Epson 640.  I've got two problems using it with Fedora.

In browsing the Web, I "discovered" hpijs, the official HP Linux drivers 
for their printers, hosted at hpinkjet.sourceforge.net.  Fedora ships 
with hpijs 1.4 but this version appeared not to support the 3650;  that 
is, the printer does not appear on the list of printers in the 
redhat-config-printers dialog box.  So, I downloaded the hpijs-1.5 
archive, built it from source and installed it, after erasing the hpijs 
1.4 RPM of course.

Problem 1:  If I use redhat-config-printer to set up the printer, I 
don't see the entry for the 3650 even with hpijs 1.5.  But if I use the 
HTTP interface to cups (http://localhost:631/), then the 3650 does show 
up as one of the possible printers to use.  The HTTP interface, though, 
says in bold face to use redhat-config-printer to set up the printer.  I 
also discovered that in the Fedora-default configuration, the HTTP cups 
interface gives only three printer choices for HP:   "DeskJet Series", 
"LaserJet Series", and "New DeskJet Series".

So, should I use hpijs-1.4 or -1.5?  If the former, which DeskJet should 
I select?

The other problem is that the printer is actually on an XP machine on my 
home network.  My old Epson worked fine from the Fedora system using 
Samba, and I'm using the same access settings for the new printer.  If I 
print to the 3650 from Fedora, the job shows up in the XP print queue 
but is never printed.  I'm not the only one with this problem;  see 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/131255, but I wonder if 
anyone here has a solution?

Stephen Walton
stephen.walton located at csun.edu