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

[Cory M. <cor...@hp...>]

I think your suspicions are right. This sounds like an issue with the
gs/footmatic portion. Please check your logs and let me know of any
error messages that you see...

Cory
hp linux printing team

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:01, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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Cory Meisch X27009
HP Vancouver
Test Technician,
Linux Printing Team