[gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Carl Adams]

I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
easy to connect and use?

Either inkjet or low-cost laser.

Thanks
Carl Adams

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2007/1/24, Carl Adams <adams@tekproject.com>:
> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
>
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.

You can take a look here [1]. There is a printer and driver database
where you can look which printer works under linux.

Normally HP printers are working very well as HP provides drivers [2] for Linux.

[1] http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
[2] http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

I personally use a HP Buisness Inkjet 1000 which does a good job.

Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2007/1/24, Carl Adams <adams@tekproject.com>:
> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?

At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC
1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i
guess! Are you using the HP drivers?

Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Carl Adams]

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC
> 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i
> guess! Are you using the HP drivers?

Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work.

The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either:

1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are:
      AppSocket/HP JetDirect
      Backend Error Handler
      Internet Printing Protocol (http)
      Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
      LPD/LPR Host or Printer
      SCSI Printer
      Serial Port #1
      Serial Port #2
   None of these seem appropriate.

2. The Device URI. When I check /var/log/messages it gives the
   mount-point as:

/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.3/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0

When supplied to CUPS this results in a "successful" install after
enabling FileDevice in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but printing a test page
produces the error message:

"/usr/libexec/cups/backend//devices/pci0000 failed"

Many thanks for any assistance with this.
Carl Adams.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Petr Uzel]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:32, Carl Adams wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC
> > 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i
> > guess! Are you using the HP drivers?
>
> Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work.
>
> The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either:
>
> 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are:
>       AppSocket/HP JetDirect
>       Backend Error Handler
>       Internet Printing Protocol (http)
>       Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
>       LPD/LPR Host or Printer
>       SCSI Printer
>       Serial Port #1
>       Serial Port #2
>    None of these seem appropriate.
>

Hi,
make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups. Then there should 
appear something like hp:/ in that list.

I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly.

I hope it will help, otherwise, feel free to ask :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Daniel Pielmeier]

> The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either:
>
> 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are:
>      AppSocket/HP JetDirect
>      Backend Error Handler
>      Internet Printing Protocol (http)
>      Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
>      LPD/LPR Host or Printer
>      SCSI Printer
>      Serial Port #1
>      Serial Port #2

I don't know why USB Printer doesn't show up in the list. Have you
enabled the ppds USE flag?

Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Uwe Thiem]

On 24 January 2007 18:32, Carl Adams wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC
> > 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i
> > guess! Are you using the HP drivers?
>
> Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work.
>
> The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either:
>
> 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are:
>       AppSocket/HP JetDirect
>       Backend Error Handler
>       Internet Printing Protocol (http)
>       Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
>       LPD/LPR Host or Printer
>       SCSI Printer
>       Serial Port #1
>       Serial Port #2
>    None of these seem appropriate.

Plug the printer in and switch it on. ;-)

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:32:20 +1000, Carl Adams wrote:

> > At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC
> > 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i
> > guess! Are you using the HP drivers?  
> 
> Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work.

There's no need to download and install manually, just emerge hplip.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:33, Carl Adams wrote:
> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
>
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
>
> Thanks
> Carl Adams
I use a HP deskjet 3845, works fine with no obvious problems
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.]

adams@tekproject.com wrote:
> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
> 
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
> 
> Thanks
> Carl Adams
> 


I have a Brother HL-5140, it is working fine with CUPS through SAMBA, 
because the machine is attached to a Windows XP PC, and I have linux in 
an old Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT Laptop PC.
When you review the list of foomatic ready, you will see also a lot of 
printers ready to work with Linux using CUPS.

Sigfrido
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[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams <adams@tekproject.com>  
wrote:

> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
>
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.

FWIW, I could not get my HP photosmart 7660 to work 'til I went with hplip  
1.6.12 and cups 1.2.7.

(I print only rarely, but when necessary, I start up hplip, then cupsd.)

Everything works fine.

HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.]

7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams <adams@tekproject.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
>> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
>> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
>> easy to connect and use?
>>
>> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I could not get my HP photosmart 7660 to work 'til I went with 
> hplip  1.6.12 and cups 1.2.7.
> 
> (I print only rarely, but when necessary, I start up hplip, then cupsd.)
> 
> Everything works fine.
> 
> HTH

Follow this links

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931

You will see some information about USB port as well as about "hpijs 
1.4.1 (if you have an HP printer)"
I hope that it be useful for you.
Regards
Sigfrido
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.]

7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams <adams@tekproject.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
>> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
>> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
>> easy to connect and use?
>>
>> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I could not get my HP photosmart 7660 to work 'til I went with 
> hplip  1.6.12 and cups 1.2.7.
> 
> (I print only rarely, but when necessary, I start up hplip, then cupsd.)
> 
> Everything works fine.
> 
> HTH

Did you see it

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#usb

It is necessary to be able to use USB printer in your kernel like this:

Device Drivers -->
   USB Support -->
     <*> Support for Host-side USB
     (...)
     --- USB Host Controller Drivers
     (Select the HCD that your system uses. If you do not know which one
      to select, run "lspci -v | grep HCI" from another terminal)
     <*> EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support ( or )
     <*> OHCI HCD support           ( or )
     <*> UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support
     (...)
     <*> USB Printer support

Did you?
I hope that it help you
Regards
Sigfrido
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Carl Adams]

Thanks to all who replied to this. Petr Uzel's advice was first up,
since I didn't have hplip installed:

> make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups.
> Then there should appear something like hp:/ in that list.
> I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly. I hope it will help,
> otherwise, feel free to ask :)

Also useful was Sigfrido Ortiz's remarks about USB kernel support.
Problem now is the hp: device is hp:/no_device_found

Working on this for a bit ...

Carl Adams.



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[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[»Q«]

In <news:45B77C53.7010407@tekproject.com>,
Carl Adams <adams@tekproject.com> wrote:

> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
> 
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.

I have a low-end laser, the usb HP LaserJet 1020.  Support isn't from
HP, just from reverse-engineering, but it works fine.  The driver is
~arch in gentoo, but only because the developer doesn't like the idea
of people using versions other than the one directly from his website.
openprinting.org has details.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Thomas Kear]

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Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022.  
19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi.  They could have 
been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but it 
doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you wouldn't 
be printing on a B&W laser printer of this price anyway).
No problems connecting via USB (HP even include a USB cable, not a common 
thing nowadays), for a small amount more money the 1022n comes with inbuilt 
ethernet.  Mine is attached to an external JetDirect which seems to work fine 
as well.

More info from linuxprinting.org:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1022

I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another 
user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to 
worry about.

By the looks you should be able to make one yours for under USD$200.

--Thomas


On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:33 am, Carl Adams wrote:
> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
>
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
>
> Thanks
> Carl Adams

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[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[»Q«]

In <news:200701251037.50727.thomas.kear@gmail.com>,
Thomas Kear <thomas.kear@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by
> another user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one
> less thing to worry about.

I don't disagree at all, but only note that having to load the firmware
each time hasn't yet presented any problems.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Hamie]

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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:37, Thomas Kear wrote:
> Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022.
> 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi.  They could
> have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but
> it doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you
> wouldn't be printing on a B&W laser printer of this price anyway).
> No problems connecting via USB (HP even include a USB cable, not a common
> thing nowadays), for a small amount more money the 1022n comes with inbuilt
> ethernet.  Mine is attached to an external JetDirect which seems to work
> fine as well.
>
> More info from linuxprinting.org:
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1022
>
> I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another
> user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to
> worry about.
>
> By the looks you should be able to make one yours for under USD$200.
>

Damn, that's a good price... 

I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It 
needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker apart 
from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the paper to feed an 
envelope else you get a piece of paper infront of the envelope & the printing 
goes on the paper instead.

I also have a PSC1210. All-in-one job. I've had one problem with that under an 
older kernel that wouldn't create the device nodes properly (Umm... Fro 
memory the nodes were there, but you couldn't write to them).

H

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Thomas Kear]

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On Friday 26 January 2007 4:32 am, Hamie wrote:
> Damn, that's a good price...
>
> I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It
> needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker
> apart from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the paper to
> feed an envelope else you get a piece of paper infront of the envelope &
> the printing goes on the paper instead.
>
> I also have a PSC1210. All-in-one job. I've had one problem with that under
> an older kernel that wouldn't create the device nodes properly (Umm... Fro
> memory the nodes were there, but you couldn't write to them).
>
> H


The manual feed slot on my 1022 seems to actually function as such, overrides 
the sheet feeder for as long as it has items in it.

Envelopes seem to be fine, although they make horrible crinkling noises going 
through the printer, every time I wonder if it's going to screw itself into a 
little ball somewhere in the fuser and cause me grief (this appears to be all 
bark and no bite though, I have yet to have an actual problem, despite my use 
of self-sealing envelopes that the manual specifically warns against lest 
they decide to apply their adhesive to the inside of your printer).

More than one envelope sitting in the manual feed slot at once though?  this I 
have not tried.

--Thomas

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