Setting up HP laserjets (1012) to work with Fedora 11

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 06:11 +0200, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> Then, I
> tried to print and I had a message saying that the printer wasn't
> connected.

This is most likely one of these bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505647
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484130

> but received the message that the HPIJS driver was not
> available. (Note that I tried the Gutenprint driver when the printer
> wasn't set to use HAL: it didn't work.)
> 
> I installed hpijs, now everything is fine.

This should have been done automatically; see this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509177

The fix is in FEDORA-2009-6777, pending a push to updates-testing.

> I don't remember ever being asked to use HAL with another distro: it was
> always put to contribution, I suppose. So, there must be a way around
> this. Most newbies will never consider an option that isn't selected by
> default for a printer.

I hope to fix some of the hal-cups-utils bugs later this week.  In the
mean time, a work-around that often lets the printer work again is to
unplug it and plug it in again.

Tim.
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