[PLUG] CUPS Setup

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Richard

Try follows :

On KDE

K_Start -> System -> CUPS Printer Configuration

to start "Common UNIX Printing System - Konqueror window" and then click
"Manage Printers"


- click "ADD Printer" -> "Add New Ptinter"
- Fill_in
Name DJ690C (Name_of_your_printer you expect to display)
Location /dev/lp0 (zero, not capital 'o')
Description HP DeskJet 690C (Description_of_your_printer)

- Continue -> Continue
-Select
Device Paraport #1 for DJ690C

- Continue
- Select
Make HP

- Continue
- Select
Model HP DeskJet 690C Foomatic+hpijs(en)
                                                     ^^^^^
(It is important to find out the applicable printer driver from HP website)

- Continue
Printer DJ690C has been added successfully

- Click "Printers on ESP bar
- Click "Print Test Page"

That is all, printer installation finished.


Good Luck
Stephen


At 09:23 AM 8/14/2002 -0700, Richard Steffens wrote:
>I'm trying to get my HP656c printer working. I decided to look into
>CUPS. Yesterday, I had communication between the computer and the
>printer using printconf. Today, the printer just sits there with it's
>green led on.
>
>Where do I look, next?
>
>Here's what I did this morning.
>
>I found an article describing CUPS at LinuxPlanet:
>
>http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/2913/1/
>
>Following the directions in the article, I installed CUPS and started it
>successfully. Then, using Mozilla connected to the web admin tool at:
>
>http://localhost:631/admin
>
>where I tried to add my HP 656c. The first screen asks for a Name, a
>Location, and a Description. Eventually, I found a reference to Location
>in the CUPS Software Administrators Manual, and based on what I read,
>put "/printers" into the Location field.
>
>The next screen asks for a Device. To my surprise, it lists:
>USB PRINTER #1 (HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 656C) as one of the options, so
>I selected that one.
>
>The next screen wants a "Model/Driver for hp656c," which is what I typed
>for the Name in the first step. There is a list box labeled "Make" that
>includes HP. Selecting that leads to another screen with a list box
>including 3 options:
>
>HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)
>HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)
>HP New DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)
>
>I selected "HP New DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)," and tried to print a
>test page. I'm told, "Test page sent; job ID is hp656c-1, but nothing
>prints. I tried modifying the configuration by selecting "HP DeskJet
>Series CUPS v1.1 (en)," and tried again. Again, nothing printed. I tried
>a couple of times on each. I went to the "Jobs" screen and saw, "No
>Active Jobs." I clicked on "Show Completed Jobs," and found four of
>them, with ID's hp656c-1, hp656c-2, -3, and -4. The "State" listed for
>each is:
>
>   cancelled at
>   Wed Aug 14 08:46:25 2002
>
>(That was for -1. The other 3 are similar, with successively later
>times.)
>
>If I click "Restart Job," I get:
>
>   Error:
>         client-error-not-possible
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Dick Steffens
>"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
>http://rsteff.home.attbi.com/
>
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