[cups.general] CUPS recognize USB printer

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Sep 9 10:26:39 PDT 2008


Collin Day wrote:
> How do I get cups to recognize my USB printer?  When I have hplip, it
> finds it, but if I remove hplip and the printer and then restart
> cups, it won't find any usb devices, but lsusb says it is there.  I
> am working through some of the ddk examples trying to figure out how
> to test a driver.
 > ...

More than likely the printer you are using does not conform to the
USB printer spec, and thus is not supported by the kernel driver...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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