hplip and Fedora Core 5
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Aug 5 23:48:21 UTC 2006
Frank Cox wrote:
> I power-cycled the printer, unplugged the USB cable, restarted hplip and cups,
> and plugged the cable back in.
>
> When I went back into the CUPS web interface, I saw that the printer was listed
> about four times on the initial page under "new printers found".
>
> I installed it as Device URI: usb://HP/color%20LaserJet%202550%20series
>
> This prints just fine but the hp-* tools don't recognize it, of course.
>
> The other lists that specify the hp: CUPS backend (those that actually use
> hplip) still won't print. I can, however, run hp-toolbox and view all of the
> statistics and whatnot for the printer if this printer-that-won't-print is set
> up under CUPS.
>
> So it appears that I can access all of the functions of this printer by having
> it listed twice. Once as a usb: device to actually print with, and once as a
> hp: device to view status and clean it and so on. This isn't the greatest
> solution, though.
>
FWIW, I've found the folks over at http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ and its
associated mailing list to be very helpful. When I had issues I joined
the mailing list, read the FAQ, searched the archives, and then asked my
question. The authors answered within a day.
Ed
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