[cups.general] Ptal startup

[Russ Fineman]

Johannes Meixner wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Oct 11 12:38 Russ Fineman wrote (shortened):
>> I installed my HP G55 this past week. I notice on startup I get a message
>> Ptal Device not found after the cupsd startup.
> ...
>> The printer prints OK, my scanner is dead.
>> This is SuSE9.1 PRO.
> 
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/05/ke_hp-officejet.html
> 
> Printing should work without the PTAL service.
> For scanning the PTAL service is required.
> In this case you must use PTAL for printing too.
> 
> For scanning it should be sufficient to activate the PTAL service
> according to the above article and then activate the "hpoj" line
> in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
> 
> Then the sacnner should be shown by the command
>   scanimage -L
> for example like
>   device `hpoj:mlc:usb:HP_OfficeJet_G55' ...
> and using a command like
>   scanimage -d hpoj:mlc:usb:HP_OfficeJet_G55 >image.pnm
> should produce an image (at least for root it should work).
> 
> 
> Regards
> Johannes Meixner
Thank you. I'll check it out.
-- 
Russ