[H-GEN] KP Deskjet 845C

[Robert Parker]

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On Sunday 02 June 2002 07:48 pm, you wrote:
Thanks Arjen,
I will download the gimp drivers and try it
Regards
Bob

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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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