Having Problems setting printers up!

Tim Massey tim at temsc.co.uk
Thu Nov 15 16:12:36 PST 2007


here is some back ground....

gateway:~# /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp
direct hp:/usb/HP_Color_LaserJet_1600?serial=JV13Z20 "HP Color LaserJet 1600" "HP Color LaserJet 1600 USB JV13Z20 HPLIP" "MFG:HP;MDL:HP Color LaserJet 1600;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP Color LaserJet 1600;SN:JV13Z20;"
direct hp:/usb/DeskJet_990C?serial=ES0C11C1RNLG "HP DeskJet 990C" "HP DeskJet 990C USB ES0C11C1RNLG HPLIP" "MFG:HP;MDL:DeskJet 990C;CLS:PRINTER;DES:DeskJet 990C;SN:ES0C11C1RNLG;"
direct hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1300_series?serial=TH659129FW04ND "HP Deskjet D1300 series" "HP Deskjet D1300 series USB TH659129FW04ND HPLIP" "MFG:HP;MDL:Deskjet D1300 series;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Deskjet D1300 series;SN:TH659129FW04ND;"

This says to me that cups find the printers ok and I can print test pages from my gateway fine

gateway:~# hp-probe

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.10)
Printer Discovery Utility ver. 2.2

Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

  Device URI                                          Model
  --------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------------------
  hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1300_series?serial=TH659129FW04ND  HP Deskjet D1300 series
  hp:/usb/DeskJet_990C?serial=ES0C11C1RNLG            HP DeskJet 990C

Found 2 printer(s) on the 'usb' bus.

This says to me that HPLIP can find 2 out of the 3 printers fine and I can print test pages!

But what I can't do is get Vista or XP to print to any of the printers it finds then via samba

here is the relvent part of my samba conf

[Deskjet_D1300]
	path = /usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP/HP-DeskJet_D1300-hpijs.ppd
	guest ok = Yes
	printable = Yes
	use client driver = Yes

[DeskJet_990C]
	path = /usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP/HP-DeskJet_990C-hpijs.ppd.gz
	guest ok = Yes
	printable = Yes

[Color_LaserJet_1600]
	path = /usr/share/ppd/foo2zjs/HP-Color_LaserJet_1600.ppd.gz
	guest ok = Yes
	printable = Yes
	use client driver = Yes

any help would be greatly appriciated

Thank you in advanced

Tim




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