Re: USB printer installation(How to do)

From: Michael Marsh (michael.a.marsh_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:27:12 -0500
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    On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:56:27 +0000, Telmo Filipe Tavares da Silva
    <tsilva@zmail.pt> wrote:
    > I have an HP / DeskJet 3650 printer and wish to install it on my Debian
    > Sarge OS. I have read documentation over linuxprinting and installed
    > cups, but whenever I install my printer throw "printconf", which
    > supposely should be on /dev/usb/lp0, it istalls it over
    > "usb://3650?serial=TH39J1800Z6B". When I try to print the printer
    > doesn't respond. It doesn't move an inch. Should it default to that
    > port? In the web interface of cups, /dev/usb/lp0 isn't present. How
    > should I do it? Can anyone help?

    I just went through this with a DJ3845 on Sid. I had trouble getting
    cups to work, so I went with lprng instead. Here's the printcap entry
    that made everything work:

    lp|HP Deskjet printer entry:\
            :lp=/dev/usb/lp0: \
            :force_localhost: \
            :if=/usr/bin/foomatic-rip: \
            :ppd=/var/spool/lpd/lp/HP-DeskJet_3840-hpijs.ppd: \
            :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: \
            :mx#0:sh:

    It could be that all you need at this point (noticing the need to use
    /dev/usb/lp0 instead of /dev/lp0 was my final hurdle after abandoning
    cups, not that I'm proud of that...) is to grab the ppd file from
    http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi?driver=hpijs&printer=HP-DeskJet_3840&show=0
    (unless, of course, you've already done this) and put it in
    /etc/cups/ppd/ if you're using cups or the location specified by the
    ":ppd=" line if you're using lprng. Also make sure you have hpijs
    installed. 

    -- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
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