[cups.general] HP 4 REFUSES TO CONNECT VIA USB

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sun Sep 27 17:22:26 PDT 2009


On Sep 27, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Karl Ayer wrote:
> I am hoping one of you experts can help me.
>
> I was struggling with connecting my MacBook Pro (10.5.8) directly to  
> HP printers via a USB to Parallel printer cable. Thanks to CUPS  
> (localhost:631) I was able to get 2 MacBook Pros, connected directly  
> to an HP 4200. However, I have an HP 4 in perfect condition which I  
> would also like to get working. It gets recognized just fine, but I  
> allways get a "Printer Off Line Message". There must be somthing  
> different about the old HP 4.
>
> Can any of you give me some help?

You might try toggle the parallel port mode - the older HP printers  
had High-Speed and Normal modes.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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