Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.0, CUPS, PrinterDrake and HP DeskJet 400

[Till Kamppeter]

Joe English wrote:

Just wanted to say that PrinterDrake *rocks*!
Getting printers to work on Unix has always been a
massive headache, but the Mandrake tools make this
messy, complicated job almost easy.

That said, I did run into one hitch :-)

The "recommended" CUPS driver for the HP DeskJet 400
is "GhostScript +hpijs-rss"; unfortunately this one
doesn't seem to work in Mandrake 9.0. It uses the
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster filter, which in turn
calls 'gs ... -sDEVICE=cups ...'.

I cannot imagine that "GhostScript +hpijs-rss" uses /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster. How did you find out this? Can you send me the following files:

/etc/cups/printers.conf
/etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd

But the version of GhostScript in Mandrake 9 (ghostscript-7.05-28.1mdk)
doesn't include the 'cups' driver.  (I think this is only
available in the ESP GhostScript distribution, not sure).

I have checked the version which I have built for the Cooker and "gs -h" lists the "cups" device. I have also checked the spec file for generating the RPM, and it assures that GhostScript is compiled with CUPS support. Vincent, can it be that something went wrong with your rebuild of the printer driver update packages?

I finally got it to work by switching to 'expert' mode in printerdrake and selecting the 'GhostScript + pcl3' driver.

Yes, this was the recommended driver before "hpijs" claimed support for the old DeskJets. Should it turn out that they do not work with "hpijs", I can return the recommendation to "pcl3".

Till