hplip and Fedora Core 5
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 6 14:10:55 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 07:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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
At the risk of being told I ma crazy, the hplip initscript on my machine
comes from tar.gz file at source forge that I downloaded and compiled
and installed. This is way I have always installed hplip. The hplip rpm
a sourceforge creation?
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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