On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2003 02:33 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:53, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:35 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 08:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > > > > The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like > > > > > > me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. > > > > > > > > > > Depends on the model. I have a HP PSC950 and it worked out of the > > > > > box with Mandrake version 9 and 9.1, with no changes whatsoever. > > > > > Granted, I can't control the fax portion from Linux, but printing, > > > > > scanning, and accessing smart media cards from the printer all work > > > > > without any problems or configuration changes in Mandrake. > > > > > > > > > > I have heard other people talk about having problems but in most > > > > > cases, those are related to homegrown or less friendly Linux > > > > > distributions or other issues like USB support, etc. > > > > > > > > The PSC 1250 uses somthing called the HP lightweight printer langage > > > > and is supposed to work thru CUPS but I have had no luck. I have been > > > > told that what I need is the CVS version of HPIJS, but,hell I'm a > > > > dummie How do I get it? meanwhile the Samsung ML-4500 laser printer > > > > works just fine.(only B&W tho. > > > > > > I am definitely not trying to be a smart ass here, HP does not list a PSC > > > 1250 on their site. They do list a 1205 and a 2105, but not a 1250. Can > > > I ask you to confirm what model printer you have? > > > > PSC 1210 bought it at sears $99.00 > > Well, you are right in that the printer that you have is not currently well > supported under Linux. This has nothing to do with Mandrake in particular, > but hardware support for Linux in general. HP only just started releasing > software drivers for this particular hardware architecture in 11/2002, it > takes a while for the Linux community to catch up to new releases. The short > story seems to be that you can print with existing drivers (hpijs) but not > scan, or you can scan with existing drivers (hpoj) but not print, or you can > download and compile the latest bleeding edge version of hpoj (1.3), in which > case you can do both. > > In order to get this version, you need to pull from the CVS repository which > is where the developers store the current source code as they are working on > it. The version you need for both printing and scanning is simply too new to > be readily available, it is not considered stable yet and that means that > there are no binaries, certainly none supported by Mandrake. > > HP itself usually only releases drivers covering printing which is supported > by the current versions of drivers available under Mandrake Linux. The open > source community has been building drivers to support scanning itself, but > this does tend to lag a bit behind the latest hardware releases. > > I could start the process of explaining how to do this stuff but I would > expect major problems in getting the code compiled since there is no way to > control for dependencies and no real way of knowing what tools and packages > are required. It is likely that you would have to compile and upgrade other > packages that the code would be dependent upon and the only way to find out > would be to pour through comments and notations from the developers. > > For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system > and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to > print to your printer but not scan from it. > > Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able > to both scan and print. Thanks I'll remove HPOJ tonite and try again.
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