Re: [hpoj-devel] Driver probllem with PSC 2510

[Ed W. <li...@wi...>]

Cory Meisch wrote:

>So you do have CUPS setup. What device URI are you using? It should be
>should be something like mlc:usb://
>
>Also, you may need to emerge the foomatic and ghostscript systems if you
>haven't down that already.
>  
>

Thanks for the thoughts. 

Device URI's tried are:
  ptal:/hpjd:192.168.105.11
  socket://192.168.105.11:9100/
  ptal:/mlc:usb:psc_2500_series

All give the same effect, instantly the job is "Aborted".  (Which 
suggests that it never goes anywhere at all...  Certainly there are no 
flashes or noises from the printer to suggest that it just received some 
data)

foomatic and ghostscript *should* be setup.  I have an epson 750 running 
correctly through gimp-print and cups.  Not completely sure what needs 
to be setup for the HP though.

On my gentoo system I just grab all the packages, foomatic, cups, 
ghostscript, gimprint, snmp, hpoj, hpij, others that I forgot...?  Then 
the only setup is to fire up cups via the localhost:631 link and the 
Epson was installed and running just by adding a new printer.  I am 
trying the same thing for the HP, ie just adding in the printer def.

As you point out I think it is something after CUPS which is failing, 
perhaps in the ghostscript/foomatic end, perhaps in the spooler section? 

I can do "cat blah |  ptal-print".  Should I be able to do something 
with lpr to simulate the bit happening after cups?  I really don't quite 
understand the printing subsytem on linux, so some pointers to docs or 
bits to debug would be appreciated.

I have just printed the test page via my windows machine, so the printer 
seems to be working!

Thanks all

Ed W