[hpoj-devel] HP G55 Printer

[upscope <rus...@ce...>]

I am new to Linux (SuSE 9.0) and am trying to get my HP G55 printer to
print.
 I'm trying to use CUPS. I have a second printer which is a Xerox Workcentre
480 that
is connected to the pararrel port. It works OK with the 470 driver except
the 470 does not
appear to support color.  When I go to the localhost:631/printers it shows
the G55 printer active
 and accepting jobs. Under completed jobs it shows the job I submitted as
complete. But nothing
prints.

The printer prints fine from my Win ME installation even though it is
reporting a scanner failure. Could this message be affecting Linux? I'm
only trying to use the printer as a printer.


Below is the out put from KDEprint. I never see any activity on the printer.
But the jobs tab of KDE Printer says many were completed from root and my
user ID.

General Properties
Type Local
State Idle (accepting jobs)
Location USB printer on //HP/OfficeJet%20G
20Series?serial=SGA9C1064KVL
Description
URI ipp://linux:631/printers/officejetg55
Interface (Backend) usb://HP/OfficeJet G Series?serial=SGA9C1064KVL

Driver
Manufacturer HP
Model OfficeJet G55 hpijs
Driver Information HP OfficeJet G55 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)

Driver says: officejetg55 (HP OfficeJet G55 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended))

Any ideas what to look at?

One question I have is where does the driver get installed? When I look in
etc/cups/ppd is see three ppd files:
HP-OfficeJet_G55-hpijs.ppd
lp.ppd
officejetg55.ppd
The first one is a save of the officejetg55.ppd file. Do I need to edit this
file? I can see the printer with localhost:631/printers. It lets me see the
configuration and shows the printer as the first USB Device. Also says it
accepting jobs.

I looked at printers.conf and both printers are shown. I read one article
that said
 /usr/share/cups/model should have a copy of the ppd. Do I copy the
HP_OfficeJet_G55-hpijs .ppd there?

Is there a good document for setup of the printer. What is there now was
installed when I installed
SuSE 9.0.

Any help would be appriciated.

I'm new to Linux and and alittle lost on what to do next.
-- 
Russ