Bug#335597: hplip should require hpijs
Package: hplip
Version: 0.9.2-2
Severity: normal
I may be mistaken, but isn't hpijs a necessity to use hplip? Is there
any use for hplip without hpijs?
Upon setting up a hp5550 inkjet printer, CUPS reports this :
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D [24/Oct/2005:22:21:31 +0200] [Job 10] perl: warning: Falling back to
the standard locale ("C").
D [24/Oct/2005:22:21:31 +0200] [Job 10] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH'
'-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs'
'-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD'
'-sDeviceModel=deskjet 5550' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595'
'-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842' '-dDuplex=false' '-r600'
'-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=0,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2,PS:MediaPosition=7'
'-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [24/Oct/2005:22:21:31 +0200] [Job 10] sh: line 1: hpijs: command not
found
D [24/Oct/2005:22:21:31 +0200] [Job 10] ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Can't
start ijs server "hpijs"
D [24/Oct/2005:22:21:31 +0200] [Job 10] **** Unable to open the initial
device, quitting.
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- note that Ghostscript needs the 'plugin' hpijs. Hewlett Packard states
that hpijs is contained in hplip (from
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/faqs.php ):
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Q. Why are there two drivers?
A. HPIJS is provided to provide basic printing support for the largest
number of devices. It can operate in any spooler environment
(including no spooler). HPLIP, which includes HPIJS, adds
bi-directional I/O (via a CUPS backend), scanning, photo card access,
and toolbox functionality to the basic HPIJS driver. HPLIP requires
the CUPS spooler.
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>From 'dpkg -L hpijs' and 'dpkg -L hplip' it seems that hpijs is only in
package hpijs. 'apt-get install hplip' doesn't mention hpijs as
suggested package.
apt-get'ting hpijs fixed the problem, both CUPS and the command line to
'gs' that the CUPS-log shows above, prints out as required.
SOLUTION: If I'm right, hplip should require hpijs
Best regards, Henning Petersen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=da_DK, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii cupsys 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hplip-data 0.9.2-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libsnmp5 5.1.2-6.1 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-qt3 3.13-4 Qt3 bindings for Python (default v
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