Re: cups and hpijs driver

[Phil Reardon <pcr@pcrt.com>]

It turns out there is a debian package called hpijs, so I installed that 
along with foomatic-bin. But it still did not show up in the driver 
list.  What do I do now?

Phil Reardon

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> On Monday 16 December 2002 13:41, Phil Reardon wrote:
>  
>
> > How do I get the hpijs driver for cups on my debian sid box?  I am
> > trying to configure an hp photosmart 7350 printer, but when I went to
> > http://localhost:631/ and tried to set up the printer, there were
> > only three hp drivers listed, one each for deskjets, laserjets and
> > new deskjets.
> >    
>
> Have you looked at the foomatic packages? I struggled a long time with 
> my HP OfficeJet printer before I found that. 
>
> Which reminds me (new question to list): Is there a way to have apt-get 
> list the Recommended and Suggested packages of the package just 
> installed? For a newbie, it takes time to discover things like that, 
> and such a feature would help newbies a lot, I think.
>
> Best
>
> Kjetil
>