Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:20:07 +0200, "Jacob S."
<stormspotter@6texans.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:13:53 -0700
>the softrat <softrat@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:50:05 +0200, Kevin Mark
>> <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com> wrote:
><snip>
>> You didn't answer my question! And how come CUPS won't let me
>> administer my own printer??!!????
>
>Ok. A little more information would be helpful here. Which specific
>driver did you use when you configured the printer in cups?
>
>Cups will let you administer your own printer. Make sure to use the root
>username and password when it prompts for it.
>
What's the difference between the 'root username' and 'root'? And it
won't let me! It tells me that I am not authorised to use that
resource.....
>> >Hi J,
>> >I have an hp 890c and I use hpijs.
>> >-Kev>
>> >
><nasty wrap-around... some lines trimmed below>
>> >ii foomatic-db-hp 1.5-20040506-1 linuxprinting.org printer support -
>> >ii hpijs 1.6-1 HP Inkjet Server - Ghostscript
>> >ii cupsconfig-kno 0.5-6 Minimalistic cups
>> >ii cupsys 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX
>> >ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX
>> >ii cupsys-client 1.1.20final+cv Common
>> >ii libcupsimage2 1.1.20final+cv Common
>> >ic libcupsys2 1.1.20final+cv Common
>> >ii libcupsys2-gnu 1.1.20final+cv
>>
>> So?
>>
>> And how do I verify/fix this?
>
>You can see what versions/packages you have by doing
>dpkg -l <packagename> and/or dpkg -l | grep cups, etc.
>
>As long as you have the packages I mentioned in a previous e-mail
>installed though, I don't really expect you to need to upgrade anything.
>
>Jacob
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