Re: [hpoj-devel] troubles with PSC 1300 series

[Tom W. <to...@op...>]

David Vestal wrote:

>I have a PSC 1350 that I can't get working. I have tried deleting the 
>installation several times and starting over from scratch for this. 
>Everything seems to setup fine, and it recognizes that the printer is there 
>and KDE, cups, and yast are all able to tell me that they see the printer. 
>However, when I try to print it just sits at the processing stage forever and 
>never prints. From the command line is says that connecting to the device 
>failed.
>
>linux:/home/root # ptal-device
>mlc:usb:psc_1300_series
>
>linux:/home/root # ptal-print `ptal-device`
>ptal-print: connecting to device "mlc:usb:psc_1300_series"... failed!
>
>Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions. Thanks
>
>  
>

I had a lot of problems with an HPOJ 4110 and my problems were resolved 
by running the 0.91 driver (my distro only had the 0.90 driver on the 
CD).  After installing the driver, I ran the "Testing basic device 
connectivity" section of Setting up basic device connectivity 
<http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/hpoj-0.91/doc/setup-connect.html>.  This 
verified the functional aspect of the USB --> printer connection.  
Contrary to what the HPOJ doc recommended, I used the Mandrake printer 
setup tool instead of the CUPS WWW tool to setup my printer queues.  
Every time I used the CUPS tool, I got zip, nothing.  I found myself 
completely confused as to what needed to be done with CUPS WWW to setup 
the printer, the printer drake made it easy.

BTW, the printers have been installed and running fine for about 4 
months now.  Prior to that, they would run a few days and mysteriously 
go offline!

TomW


>David
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