[clue-tech] Setting up an HP Officejet printer...

[Adrian F. Nagle, IV]

I was just able to get the printer set up with my eeePC Iwhich uses gnome).  There, gnome automatically found the uri socket://192.168.0.7.  I was able to print a test page and a photo.

I really think I have an issue with CUPS.  It has worked well in the past.  A year ago I was able to add another printer.

Adrian

> From: "Adrian F. Nagle, IV" <anagle at naglenet.org>
> 
> > > I use my browser to access my CUPS server and click add printer.
> > > After entering info data, I enter "netowrk via ipp" and get to the
> > > driver dialgu.  After selecting a printer driver, the browser hangs
> > > waiting for my server.  I don't recall this difficulty before.
> > 
> > I don't know whether IPP is the right protocol.  You might read about the 
> > hp-makeuri command and see what it gives you for the URI, if you can figure 
> out 
> > how to tell it what printer you have.
> 
> For hp-makeuri, I get:
> 
> hp:/net/Officejet_6500_E709n?ip=192.168.0.7
> 
> I'm wondering if somehow something is wrong with CUPS.  It just stalls when 
> selecting the make of the printer.  I should get a new page with a list of HP 
> drivers to select from.
> 
> I found some reviews online that state it was easy to install this printer for 
> Linux.  I'm sure I can use a smilar print driver, until a newer one is 
> available.
> 
> I'm looking for ideas why CUPS would hang waiting for a response from my server 
> after selecting the make.  I don't want to uninstall and reinstall CUPS.  :)


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Adrian Nagle ~ anagle at naglenet.org