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

[chris fedde]

Looks like this model supports HP PCL 3.  IIRC there is a driver for
that specific language in CUPS either in the bundled drivers or via
foomatic.  Most HP network printers support multiple connection
protocols.   ipp is convenient when it is available,  also the
jet-direct on port 9100 is typical.   If the printer supports
postscript I usualy chose that from the generic model list.  Sometimes
I run an nmap on the local network just to see what ports things are
listening on.

YMMV
chris

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Adrian F. Nagle, IV<anagle at naglenet.org> wrote:
> 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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