Officejet 5510 and CUPS-lpd/CUPS â problem and solution
Anonymous
anonymous at easysw.com
Thu Aug 18 07:13:35 PDT 2005
Hi,
As an advanced linux administrator, I thought that sharing an Officejet 5510 using Cups via lpd on my Fedora Core 4 server with XP laptops would be trivial. After quickly setting up the cups and cups-lpd with printtool, I ended up wrestling with this for days and thought I would share my experience to (hopefully) save someone else some time.
The trick is that the OfficeJet 5510 driver does not show up in the âadd new printerâ wizard for XP, you canât add it from the CD, and you canât just use the âOfficejetâ driver that comes with XP. Instead, you need to:
1 â Install the officejet 5510 software on the XP client computers, as though you were going to use the printer via USB.
2 â Setup the linux server for lpd via printtool. Donât forget to âyum install cups-lpdâ
3 â Add an arbitrary lpd printer that points to the linux server:
a) âAdd a printerâ from the printer control panel
b) âLocal printer attached to this computerâ â Donât check the automatically dectect box!
c) âCreate a new portâ of type âStandard TCP IP Portâ. . . if that option doesnât appear, google around. Itâs built into XP, but I forget if you have to do something to make it appear.
d) Put in your linux serverâs IP address and hit next, select âcustom,â, change the protocol to LPR and put in the queue name for the printer you setup in #2
e) When you scroll through the manufacturers and printers, you wonât see the officejet 5510 listed. Annoying, since you already installed it. Just pick anything basic (Apple Laserwriter NT, for example) and complete the printer wizard without printing a test page.
4 â Go back into the printers and faxes control panel, right-click the printer you just added, and go to the âadvancedâ tab â if you click on the âdriverâ entry, you can now scroll through the list and select âhp officejet 5500 seriesâ. Classic buggy MS BS. Hit OK.
5 â At this point a box will come up and warn you that you donât have the driver installed and ask you if you want to install it, now. Donât do anything! In the background, the HP installer should start going through several gyrations that are setting up the printer. When this activity stops, you can safely hit âNoâ. . . now print a test page. You should be done, and you have full control of the printer (not the scanner, etc) from the properties tab from programs in windows.
I wished someone had told me about this!
DrC.
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