On Saturday 15 September 2007 09:56:05 pm Raymond wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 06:39:28 Ron Eggler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I bought an HP D4260 printer today to get some print work done. I > > actually ended up getting this one cause the sales guy just told me i > > could return it if it didn't work on my system so i thought i'd give it a > > try without previously looking if cups is actually supporting it. > > Anyways, connected it to my Suse 10.2 system and it works just fine > > (recognizes it as a printer from the D4200 family). Now since it should > > go on my "server" to be made available on the network with samba, i > > connected it on my suse 10.1 server and.... it gets recognized as HP > > DeskJet only. Wouldn't print test page so i thought i'd just copy the ppd > > file from Suse 10.2 over and that should do it... but nada. File gets > > imported nicely in Yast but printer still isn't printing a test page. Any > > ideas or > > suggestions? Should i update my server system, to 10.2 (I should not need > > to eh?) > > > > Thanks! > > -- > > chEErs Ron > > You need to upgrade your hplip package on the 10.1 box to at least version > 1.7.4 (minimum required version for the D4200 series). Pick up the HPLIP > Self Extracting Archive With Installer from here: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hplip/hplip-2.7.7.run > > For further info see:http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ > > You could also add repositories belonging to higher versions of openSuse > and install hplip via yast or smart but the hplip self extracting archive > and installer is wonderfully easy to use.
Yup, This worked fine. At least i got it to print an HP test page, I'll look tomorrow into samba sharing. For now it's good and i'm heading to bed :) Thanks for your help! -- chEErs Ron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
