bml@bookcellar.com.au wrote:
Brett wrote:jlquinn wrote:I posted several days ago about the lack of success I'm having with an HP 5440 (regular inkjet). I have hpijs installed (the debian package), but the HP tools can't find the printer and hence nothing works for me.I see the printer device show up in the kernel log when I plug it into USB. However, beyond that, I've got a paperweight, despite the fact that this printer is supposed to work perfectly.
Alright, I now do have some better suggestions. Getting cups to recognise the printer wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, mostly because I had forgot all the steps and the required order of them.Basically the steps which I did was:1. Install hpijs, hplip, foomatic-db-hpijs (and dependencies), run hp-probe to try and detect your printer 2. I still had to goto linuxprinting.org and download the PPD file for my printer and copy it to /usr/share/cups/model3. Open a webbrowser and goto localhost:631 (login as root) 4. Add printer (select the "hp:xxxx" device not the "usb:xxx" device) 5. It worked
Hi, thanks for following up.The problem I was having was a low-level problem with the printer not being properly recognized on the USB bus. hp-probe would claim there was no printer installed, even though the kernel saw it there.
It turns out that the printer was conflicting with a QuickCam I also had plugged in. Once I removed the QuickCam, the printer was recognized perfectly and I could finish up the setup and print without any problems.
So, now I have a working printer. The quickcam is another story, but I'll work on debugging that another day.
Thanks, Jerry Quinn