[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#463814: Hplip fails to recognize correctly installed devices

[Bruce Sass]

On Sat July 12 2008 11:12:29 pm David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 13 July 2008 01:08:18 Bruce Sass wrote:
> > That is the setup (the one with an hp: type device URI) we need to
> > see the hp-check.log and actual error messages/reports for. It may
> > well be something as simple as a missing underscore in the URI.
>
> I am confused here.
>
> The listings for both the HP and the Epson printers (which cannot be
> around at the same time! is coming from cups. If I attempt to probe
> the lp0: printer from hplip, it will not detect it. The very old
> version of hplip (from stable) did detect it and enabled me to try
> the functions (that the printer does not, in fact use).
>
> Both printers are installed via cups. I switch the lp0: between them.

You will need to install the printer using HPLIP's software.

> The URIs were assigned by the cups setup. I manually edited the
> /etc/cups/printers.conf and changed the parallel: prefix to hp:. This
> did not help hplip and the printers no longer worked. There are no
> underscores, just parralel:/dev/lp0.

There is more to it than simply substituting hp: for parallel:.

> Since the older (stable) version worked, I filed this bug. The
> suggestion was not mine but an earlier poster who found a similar
> problem.

HPLIP changed the way it does things a little while ago, it sounds like 
some older info has been messing with our idea of what state the system 
is or should be in.

If you have the hplip-doc package installed you should look at:
	/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc/HTML/setup.html
then try one of those methods of setting up the printer.

You can also find info at:
	http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
e.g.:	http://hplip.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting/parallel.html
Keep in mind the info at the HPLIP site may assume you have build HPLIP 
yourself and refer to things which Debian has done for you behind the 
scenes.

HTH, and keep us posted.


- Bruce