On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, James Leigh wrote:

| I am currently using USB scanner (Epson Perfection 610) successfully.
| But I do not know how to set up USB printer.
|
| I have HP JaserJet 1000 Series. (of course, USB)
|
| I just added USB printer support in Kernel configuration and
| re-compiled it.

and rebooted it (?).  Apparently.

| In /proc/bus/usb/devices, I have a line:
| I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
|
| and in drivers:
|   0- 15: usblp

These are good.

| I did not make a printer.c as a module, but I put it in bzImage
|
| /dev is like that:
| % ls /dev/usblp0 -l
| crw-rw----    1 root     lp       180,   0  7�� 11 21:13 /dev/usblp0
|
| In LPRngtool, I set its filter as "*auto* - LaserJet4

What is in /etc/printcap after you do this?

I don't see anything that is obviously incorrect, unless
you need to use a printer filter that is more correct for
this printer model.  No, the 1000 isn't compatible with the
LaserJet 4; the model 4 uses PCL internally but the 1000
does not.  (see below)

| When I do configuration validation, no message come out.
| But when I print ASCII text page, the printer does not work.
| Just calm in silence.
|
| It is hard for me to find USB printer information
| But USB scanners are easy to find. :-<

That's because USB printers are so easy to use.  Usually.

  http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x342.html

  http://www.linuxprinting.org
Oops.  linuxprinting.org says that the LaserJet 1000 is a paperweight:
not useful in Linux.  That's because it doesn't use PCL (HP's
Printer Control Language).  The Windows driver for the 1000 must convert
all of its output to bitmapped (rasterized) data to send to the printer
for printing.

Sorry.  Maybe someone else has newer information...

-- 
~Randy



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