[H-GEN] KP Deskjet 845C

[Arjen Lentz]

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Hi,

On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 10:04, Robert Parker wrote:
> I'm running LM 8.2 and getting nowhere configuring a HP 845C printer.
> 
> Using harddrake and selecting CUPS it defaults to using 'foomatic + hpjis' 
> hpjis is recommended and provided by HP for this class of printer to print
> via ghostscript.
> 
> It installs ok but when it comes time to print it does nothing at all.
> I should say that is attempting to print a KSpread doc.

CUPS is the way to go, but you'll want to use the GIMP-Print 4.2.x
package with native CUPS drivers. Then things work oh so clean and
perfect.

I just installed an Epson Stylus C60 myself, first parallel but now USB.
No worries at all. Any browser, OpenOffice, GIMP, Evolution, anything.

A good source of info is www.linuxprinting.org


Quick recipe:

Grab GIMP-Print: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/

 ./configure --with-cups --with-user-guide --with-samples
or
 ./configure --with-cups --without-gimp --with-user-guide --with-samples

The latter if you don't also want to build the gimp-print plugin but
ONLY te gimp-print drivers for CUPS.

Then the regular make, make install and restart the cups daemon.
If you then do the CUPS admin, you'll find a giant list of supported
printers.

To make CUPS printers available via Samba, do:
 ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb

Printing via Samba works seamlessly between my laptop and my desktop, I
haven't yet been able to connect to the printer from the Win2k side of
my laptop. It's an access problem thing (password stuff) but I haven't
yet been able to resolve that. I'm not a Samba buff ;-)


> Next attempt was to try lpr. I had a number of choices and chose 'ghostscipt 
> + hpjis'.
> 
> At least this time I get a long error message ending with 'bad command line'.
> The command line attempt 'lpr tasklist.txt' was tried and this just does 
> nothing at all as tirelessly as does CUPS.

Nah, lpr was just plain ugly setup... go the CUPS way.
If your system already has CUPS, it's so easy too. My RedHat 7.2 didn't
so I had to remove some lpr stuff and reinstall all of CUPS myself. With
RedHat 7.3 you can switch from lpr to CUPS without trouble.
Other distris also already include CUPS. Anyway, it's not hard and the
results are excellent.


Regards,
Arjen.

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