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Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?



On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:18:36 -0700
the softrat <softrat@pobox.com> wrote:

> I've tried a bunch of things: going to LPRng, various printcaps as
> advised by various books and websites, http://www.linuxprinting.org,
> ... Print spooling is *still* sick: Part of the first page, then nada!
> 
> BTW, how does one return ALL of the print queues and status messages,
> et alia, back into virgins? Once I get an error status, it's there
> until I disclose a different error...
> 
> Thanks for your help!!
> 
> (especially if it works!)

When I got Woody talking to my HP OfficeJet G85, I ended up compiling
hpijs and hpoj from source code, apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd,
cupsys-client and cupsys-driver-gimpprint. You wouldn't need the hpoj
packages, obviously. 

The cupsys package is the main cups package. Cupsys-bsd is required if
you want to have the print command lpr, for those programs that use it.
Cupsys-driver-gimpprint is pretty obvious, as is cupsys-client.

After installing all that, restart cups to make sure it sees the hpijs
drivers (just in case you compiled it after apt-get installing cups).
Then point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:631 and you can configure
your printer. When it asks for a password, it wants the root password
for your machine.

Note: you will need to have any necessary modules already insmod'ed or
modprobed, but it sounds like you do, since it's working as much as it
is.

HTH,
Jacob

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