Re: [SOLVED] hplip and its "toolbox"
Ahhhhhhh! I feel certain I had done this before (deleted the printer
and re-added it with CUPS after installing hplip) but I now believe I
was locked in to the old mind frame of knowing the printer is usb and
always choosing the first usb printer--"USB Printer #1"--never looking
up further in the list to notice the "hp:/usb/Deskjet_3840?..." entry.
Thanks for giving me the encouragement to run through that one more
time and for pointing out where to focus my attention. I had completely
missed the "hp:/usb/Deskjet_3840?..." entry before and now see what the
README means by the "CUPS backend installed by hplip". This was not
making any sense previously.
'toolbox' finds my printer now and I may have a much better idea
of what is wrong with it when it is blinking and clearly unhappy
with something. I can monitor ink levels and run maintenance
operations on it to boot!
Thanks!!!
Paul
->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Maurits van Rees--
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:32:46PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> > Although I've already configured the printer with CUPS and the
> > printer works fine, I'm not sure what "...and the hp: CUPS backend
> > (installed by hplip)" means. I would guess that when I pick the
> > correct model of HP from the list within the CUPS web installation that
> > the "proper PPD" will be used. Not sure about how to make sure the
> > "hp: CUPS backend [is] installed by hplip".
>
> Just last week I installed an new HP printer with hplip. In CUPS go
> to Printers. Then add a printer. Enter a name. You should now see a
> small list of possible devices, like parallel port. In my case at
> least: if my printer is off I see a device "hp no_device_found". When
> my printer is on and I try this again... O dear, I see exactly the
> same. :( Well, that might be because the real device is already
> occupied by my printer so CUPS doesn't show it as available. On the
> Printers page I see "hp:/usb/psc_1310_series..." as the device URI. If
> you take the same route I guess you will see something similar.
>
> HTH,
>
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