[cups.general] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: foomatic & pstoraster with cups-1.3.5

John Frankish frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com
Wed Feb 13 20:01:22 PST 2008


>
>John Frankish wrote:
> > ...
> > I still don't understand why cups does not find the usb attached printer.

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:58:27 -0800
From: Michael R Sweet <msweet at apple.com>

>If the USB printer driver is not loaded (or has been unloaded), then
>the CUPS backend will not be able to access USB printers.
>
>--
Thanks - If I execute the cups usb backend directly, I get this:

direct usb://HP/OfficeJet%20K80?serial=ES0911401VOH "HP OfficeJet 
K80" "HP OfficeJet K80 USB #1" "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:OfficeJet 
K80;CMD:MLC,PCL,PML;CLASS:PRINTER;DESCRIPTION:Hewlett-Packard 
OfficeJet K 
Series;1284.3M:f7f,f7f;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;SERN:ES0911401VOH;VSTATUS:$HB0$NC0,ff,DN,IDLE,CUT,K0,C0,SM,NR,KP051,CP031;AiO:0;DW-PCL;" 


but I would have expected the cups browser interface "add printer" 
dialogue to find the printer automatically.

>What do you mean exactly by "USB printer driver is not loaded"?





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