On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 07:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > I power-cycled the printer, unplugged the USB cable, restarted hplip and cups, > > and plugged the cable back in. > > > > When I went back into the CUPS web interface, I saw that the printer was listed > > about four times on the initial page under "new printers found". > > > > I installed it as Device URI: usb://HP/color%20LaserJet%202550%20series > > > > This prints just fine but the hp-* tools don't recognize it, of course. > > > > The other lists that specify the hp: CUPS backend (those that actually use > > hplip) still won't print. I can, however, run hp-toolbox and view all of the > > statistics and whatnot for the printer if this printer-that-won't-print is set > > up under CUPS. > > > > So it appears that I can access all of the functions of this printer by having > > it listed twice. Once as a usb: device to actually print with, and once as a > > hp: device to view status and clean it and so on. This isn't the greatest > > solution, though. > > > > FWIW, I've found the folks over at http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ and its > associated mailing list to be very helpful. When I had issues I joined > the mailing list, read the FAQ, searched the archives, and then asked my > question. The authors answered within a day. > > Ed At the risk of being told I ma crazy, the hplip initscript on my machine comes from tar.gz file at source forge that I downloaded and compiled and installed. This is way I have always installed hplip. The hplip rpm a sourceforge creation? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
