HP DeskJet 3420 printer in Red Hat 8.0

From: Marcel Talos (talos73_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:25:12 +0800

Hi There,

I have installed RH8 on my PC and I am trying to get the above printer to
work while connected via USB to the RH8 PC.

I went into the default printer configuration program, it detected it as HP
3420, configured as a PostScript (because RH8 didn't have the specific
driver for this printer), configured as local printer and I gave it a queue.
When I send a file to it nothing happens, the lpq command allways showed
printer idle.

After some research I have found an HP driver for linux that supports my
printer (hpijs-1.4.1.9-i386.rpm), I've compiled & installed it and I've
installed CUPS packadge. Even thoguh I am using CUPS now the printer does
not do anything when you send a print job to it.

Can someone please help, I can give more info if required.

Thanks!
Marcel.

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