usb printer-scanner

Andrew Diakin adiakin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 01:52:04 PST 2004


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:47:55 +0300, Andrew Diakin <adiakin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:16:25 +0800, Khairil Yusof <kaeru at jaring.my> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:02 +0300, Andrew Diakin wrote:
> >
> > > I have a USB Printer-Scanner HP psc 2110 and I want to use it in my
> > > freebsd 5.3. I read handbook? but it is too little about usb
> > > printers... Have anybody do such thing?
> >
> > Use cups and hpijs:
> >
> > print/cups
> > print/hpijs
> >
> > grab the ppd from linuxprinting.org and put it
> > in /usr/local/share/cups/model
> >
> > http://freebsddiary.org has an article on setting up cups.
> >
> > Make sure you plug the printer and turn it on first, before configuring
> > it in cups so that the option to select the interface for usb will show
> > up.
> >
> > The scanner part currently does not work on FreeBSD 5.x :( The port for
> > that is graphics/hpoj (let us know if you get it working).
> >
> > The copier function works independently.
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Hmm.. I setup all ports as described this
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/cups.php, also I setup
> print/hpijs port and copy all *.ppd files to /usr/local/share/cups/model
> printer is connected and usbdevs show him -
> 
> orange# usbdevs
> addr 1: OHCI root hub, nVidia
>  addr 2: Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), Microsoft
> addr 1: OHCI root hub, nVidia
> addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA
>  addr 2: PSC 2100 Series, Hewlett-Packard
> addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA
>  addr 2: USB 2.0 Card Reader, Genesys Logic
> 
> in cups web admin I setup printer, select device USB Printer #1, then
> when I try to print test page nothing happens... what I do wrong?
>


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