Re: Printing to USB printer
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Curt Howland wrote:
> Ok, I'm begging.
>
> On sid, USB HP PSC2210. KInfo sees the printer when plugged in and
> powered up. Kprint has the HP driver. All print jobs vanish, however
> and nothing prints.
Note: I do not use KDE or GNOME, and I have my deskjet 5550 (similar to your
PSC2210) configured manually. Still, here's something that may help you.
Install the hpoj package, and let it talk to the USB port of your printer.
It should detect the printer automatically, if you are lucky. Everything
else must be configured to talk to your printer through hpoj ("ptal" or
"mlc" interface), NOT directly through the USB port.
Since you like KDE, you may want to install the hpoj-xojpanel package as
well.
Install the hpijs package, it is needed to process the data that goes to the
printer. Install the gs-afpl OR the gs-gpl package, for the same reason.
Install all foomatic-* packages. Restart cupsys (the printing system)
just in case (as root, command /etc/init.d/cupsys restart). Cupsys is the
printing control service behind KDE's printing system, so you probably
have a nice GUI for that, but I don't know exactly where. kprint is probably
it.
Configure cupsys (through the kde interface, maybe, or directly using your
browser to http://localhost:631) and add a printer that is configured to
talk to the *ptal* port where your PSC2210 is (ptal means that data will go
through hpoj). Select the proper model in the database. Remember to look
under "HP" *and* HewletPackard. Get the driver that says hpijs. The best
driver for my Deskjet 5550 was under "HP".
That should be it.
I can't help much to track down permission problems, though. The logs under
/var/log are your friends. Good luck.
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