USB Printer

[Marc Wiz]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:53:02AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Marc Wiz wrote:
> 
> > I have been reading Konrad's posts and the replies to the mailing
> > list regarding getting his HP printer to work.
> >
> > I also have an HP 656C USB printer.  I am running 4.7-Release.
> 
> > If I try the echo using Linux the printer works just fine.  I.e. a page is
> > printed with "hello there".
> 
> Please show the exact command you gave in Linux.  According to
> linuxprinting.org, hpijs is used to print on this printer (i.e., it's a
> Winprinter).

Warren,

I did the following:

echo "Hello there" > /dev/usb/lp0

Regarding hpijs do I take it this is a utililty for working with
Winprinters?  I see there is a port for it in the ports directory.

I hope this will work with cups.

Great, I thought we just had to deal with Winmodems.  I knew it was too
good to be true for getting the printer for that price. ($29.95 special
at Frys :-)  Next time I will check :-)

Here is the output in /var/log/syslog from booting the Linux system:

Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa800, IRQ 11
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.3
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0b.0
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xac00, IRQ 11
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Apr  6 12:54:59 tasha kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: hub.c: 4 ports detected
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/1, assigned device number 3
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x2304) is not claimed by any active driver.
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2304
Apr  6 12:55:00 tasha kernel: printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver

> 
> I was under the impression that Konrad had the working version of the
> Ghostscript command line, although he hasn't confirmed that.
> 

I have not yet seen that post.

Thanks!
Marc

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