Re: CUPS dependencies
Carl Fink wrote:
> Silly me, believing the docs! So, can you give me tips on
> setting up LPRng with hplip for a Laserjet 1012. Clearly the
> documentation can't.
Documentation is one of the well-known weaknesses of Linux, but
that is another story.
A "bog-standard Laserjet" is, IMHO, a printing machine that is
connected through a parallel port and which speaks PCL. The 1012
is neither, as far as I could find out (USB, and speaking some
restricted dialect of PCL only). Crowning itself with the
"Laserjet" label must be something of a marketing trick. But don't
worry, this thing most likely will work with Linux (see also
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1012)
In the first place, you must have USB printer support enabled in
your kernel. I have this in my hand-rolled kernel. With stock
kernels there may be some module that you have to specify in
/etc/modules. This may cure your problems with CUPS as well as
with lprng [NOTE: both are *fine* systems! I just happen to think
that CUPS is bloated and horribly complicated, but this is just a
matter of taste!]. You must then tell lprng (i.e.
magicfilterconfig) that your printer is connected to /dev/usb/lp0:
(I do not know what you should tell CUPS, because I do not use it).
Then select the hpijs "driver" (actually input filter) in
magicfilterconfig. I have not tried this myself of course, not
having had my hands on this type of machine, but I think it will
work.
linuxprinting.org has more, but the information on that site tends
to make my head spin.
Regards, Jan
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