SUCCESS!!!
My printer now scans AND prints perfectly. Thanks again for your help!
Your interest in my dilemma was very encouraging.
What ended up working is:
1. Deleted all printers from CUPS
2. Restarted cups daemon
3. Used the KDE Control Center/peripherals/Printers & made sure CUPS
was the print server. Added a new printer with the wizard:
a.) The first screen is "backend selection". I picked "other"
rather than "local" and selected the "PTAL" device from the list
b.) Next, as the HP PSC 1210 wasn't listed under the available
models, I clicked "other", browsed to the directory where I'd unpacked
the hpijs tarball and selected the driver file there
(/usr/local/hpijs-1.6/ppd/HP-PSC_1200-hpijs.ppd on my system)
4. It worked!
The CUPS browser interface (localhost:631) wasn't listing any specific
printer models at all. I'm not sure what might be broken there, but as
this problem is solved we won't worry.
Regards,
Neil
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