Philip Webb schrieb am 19.03.2010 06:20:
> 100318 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>>> hpcups
>> Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver.
>>> hpijs
>> See above.
> 
> Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' & my printer wouldn't work,
> so I restored 'hpijs' & dropped 'hpcups' & all was ok.
> It's an ancient Deskjet 500C with the b+w '500' driver.
> Installed versions: Cups-1.3.11-r1 Hplip-3.9.12-r1 (both stable).
> 
> Any comments or helpful suggestions ?
> 

As you sad it is a very old model and already reached "End of support" [1]
state. Hpcups is the new driver and I guess such old models are not supported by
the new driver. Just use the hpijs driver then. The hpijs driver wont disappear
from hplip in the near future.

[1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_500c.html

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Daniel Pielmeier