In browsing the Web, I "discovered" hpijs, the official HP Linux drivers for their printers, hosted at hpinkjet.sourceforge.net. Fedora ships with hpijs 1.4 but this version appeared not to support the 3650; that is, the printer does not appear on the list of printers in the redhat-config-printers dialog box. So, I downloaded the hpijs-1.5 archive, built it from source and installed it, after erasing the hpijs 1.4 RPM of course.
Problem 1: If I use redhat-config-printer to set up the printer, I don't see the entry for the 3650 even with hpijs 1.5. But if I use the HTTP interface to cups (http://localhost:631/), then the 3650 does show up as one of the possible printers to use. The HTTP interface, though, says in bold face to use redhat-config-printer to set up the printer. I also discovered that in the Fedora-default configuration, the HTTP cups interface gives only three printer choices for HP: "DeskJet Series", "LaserJet Series", and "New DeskJet Series".
So, should I use hpijs-1.4 or -1.5? If the former, which DeskJet should I select?
The other problem is that the printer is actually on an XP machine on my home network. My old Epson worked fine from the Fedora system using Samba, and I'm using the same access settings for the new printer. If I print to the 3650 from Fedora, the job shows up in the XP print queue but is never printed. I'm not the only one with this problem; see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/131255, but I wonder if anyone here has a solution?
Stephen Walton stephen.walton located at csun.edu
