Hi, all.
I bought an HP 5440 based on the recommendations of linuxprinting.org.
So far I've had no success getting the printer to work, though. At the
moment, I suspect something at the USB level. This is on etch testing
as of today.
When I plug the printer in, I see the following in kernel.log:
Feb 13 23:31:16 smaug kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 3
Feb 13 23:31:19 smaug kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using
uhci_hcd and address 4
When I try to create a cups printer queue for the HP, the only URI
offered of type hp: is hp:/no_device_found, which isn't so useful and
doesn't work, of course.
There's a tool called hp-probe which seems to be designed for locating
printers. When I run it with debug logging, I get the following:
smaug:~# hp-probe --logging=debug -busb
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.7)
Device Detection (Probe) Utility ver. 1.3
Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
[DEBUG]: Sending data on channel (3)
[DEBUG]:
'msg=probedevicesfiltered\nfilter=none\nbus=usb\nformat=cups\ntimeout=5\nttl=4\n'
[DEBUG]: Reading data on channel (3)
[DEBUG]:
'msg=probedevicesfilteredresult\nresult-code=0\nnum-devices=0\nencoding=none\nlength=0\ndata:\n'
[WARNING]: No devices found. If this isn't the result you are expecting,
[WARNING]: check to make sure your devices are properly connected.
smaug:~#