[cups] hp 2820 / cups 2.1.3
Brian Potkin
claremont102 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 15:51:55 PDT 2016
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 16:50:06 -0400, Christopher Barry wrote:
>
> Greetings, for some weird reason I can't get cups to print to this
> printer anymore. The printer was physically having issues, and I had
> deleted the printer from the configuration. I have since fixed the
> printer, but can't configure it again.
>
> system-config-printer starts and shows the printer in it's list
> for network printer. I select it, connection type says AppSocket/HP
> JetDirect, I click forward, a dialog appears saying 'Searching for
> Drivers' for a few seconds until it outputs the following:
>
> No ID match for device socket://192.168.111.150:
> MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP Color LaserJet
> 2820;CMD:PJL,PML,MLC,PCL,POSTSCRIPT,PCLXL;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color
> LaserJet 2820; No ID match for device socket://192.168.111.150:9100:
> MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP Color LaserJet
> 2820;CMD:PJL,PML,MLC,PCL,POSTSCRIPT,PCLXL;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color
> LaserJet 2820;
>
>
> The 'Searching...' dialog returns again for a bit longer before going
> away, with the 'Select Device' dialog hanging forever with a spinning
> cursor. Nothing else gets output to the terminal.
>
> I must kill the job in another terminal to stop it.
>
> Now, cups and system-config-printer are likely not at all related, and
> you probably want me to use something else like my browser to
> localhost:631. Problem is I can't save anything that way, and I am
> loathe to run my browser as root or login to a web page as root.
>
> What should I do?
If you were using Debian I would advise:
Install the printer-driver-postscript-hp package, search the output of
'lpinfo -m' for 'Color LaserJet 2800' and get the *.ppd portion of the
line. Then
lpadmin -p hp2820 -v socket://192.168.111.150 -E -m postscript-hp:.....
Regards,
Brian.
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