New HP driver (HPIJS) won't work with CUPS

by Bernard mentin » Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:52:58

Hi All,

I am having trouble getting the HPIJS driver working under CUPS. I
downloaded an installed the driver as per the link from the
www.linuxprinting.org page, then downloaded and installed the CUPS PPD
file (for my printer)as per instructions, then restarted CUPS.

I set up a new printer in the CUPS admin web server (localhost:631),
using the new driver. All setup ok.

However, when I print anything, or try to print a test page. Nothing
works. There does not appear to be any job in the queue.
The older generic driver works ok.

Anyone been down this track, and got it working?
I am trying to print out "photo" quality prints, as this new driver is
mean't to be much better at.

Appreciate any help.

Cheers,
Bernie

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1. HP 7150 on RH 7.3 now not working after new hpijs

Thanks in advance

based on the support reports at linuxprinting.org, I bought a

photosmart 7150. Works A-Ok under a certain popular OS.

I am using printtool (which is linked to printconf-gui) to configure,

and RH 7.3 seems to be using

LPRng (ls -l /usr/bin/lpr eventually leads to /usr/bin/lpr.LPRng)

I installed, printtool (which is actually printconf-gui) found the printer,

I called it a photosmart 1315 used hpijs driver and the test-page

looked nice. I printed from GIMP (then unaware of the gimp-print issue)

and it looked hosed--as in, way way way too pale.

I compiled and installed GS 7.05 and hpijs 1.2.1.

I reinstalled the printer, using hpijs driver. I could not find the

file noted int he README with hpijs-- to wit,

/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/printerdb

to include the snippet that they say to include.

Anyway, now everything is broke. not even a test page prints.

less /proc/bus/usb/devices includes:

T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=10c0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 5 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=3a02 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=hp
S: Product=photosmart 7150
S: SerialNumber=MY258121VR2F
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=07c4 ProdID=a200 Rev= 1.29
S: Product=Mass Storage Card Reader
S: SerialNumber=FFFFFFFFFFFF
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms