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  • [OS2HW] eCUPS And HP Officejet Pro 8500

    From Eugene Poole@1:3634/1000 to All on Tue Sep 28 00:00:38 2010

    I've got a HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909a. It prints, scans and Faxes all
    from the device itself or from across the wired ethernet connection.
    I've got 7 machines on my little network, 2-Linux machines; 3-Windows
    machines (XP, Vista, and Windows 7 laptop); 2-eComStation machines (1.2R
    and 2.0 GA).

    As you would imagine, the printer works just fine from Windows and
    Linux, but I'm having issues printing from eCS. I've installed eCUPS003
    (I used the wpi full package) and all looked great except when I got to
    the part where I'm configuring my printer and it says for me to select
    my printer model or provide a PPD. As you might have guessed, my
    printer model wasn't there so I copied the PPD from one of my Linux
    machines. Although it said the install completed successfully, I still
    can't print. So I'm guessing it's one of the following:

    1. It definitely has a bad PPD for the eCUPS level I've installed
    (should the PPD be different?).
    2. Something needs to be updated (cups? ghostscript? gutenprint?)
    that has the correct printer model installed.

    Does anyone have any idea what I can do to get this working?

    Gene



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  • From Ed Durrant@1:3634/1000 to All on Tue Sep 28 05:20:46 2010

    Hi Eugene,

    I've been running an HP Officejet 6310 all-in-one with eComStation for
    some time as a printer.

    I installed using the individual packages following the how to on the
    Wiki - for some reason the wpi install doesn't work for me (YMMV).

    I selected the HP OfficeJet 7110 driver and everything works as it
    should. I can print to it either over the LAN or via the USB cable.

    For scanning I put in an SD card. scan to that and then plug it into a
    card reader to read the files off it. When I have the printer connected
    via the USB cable, I can sometimes also read the data from the SD card
    while it is in the reader in the HP.

    Fax of course works as a standalone device, I have not tried to get it
    to work from the eCS PC as I hardly ever send faxes.

    Cheers/2

    Ed.


    Eugene Poole wrote:
    I've got a HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909a. It prints, scans and Faxes all
    from the device itself or from across the wired ethernet connection.
    I've got 7 machines on my little network, 2-Linux machines; 3-Windows machines (XP, Vista, and Windows 7 laptop); 2-eComStation machines (1.2R
    and 2.0 GA).

    As you would imagine, the printer works just fine from Windows and
    Linux, but I'm having issues printing from eCS. I've installed eCUPS003
    (I used the wpi full package) and all looked great except when I got to
    the part where I'm configuring my printer and it says for me to select
    my printer model or provide a PPD. As you might have guessed, my
    printer model wasn't there so I copied the PPD from one of my Linux machines. Although it said the install completed successfully, I still can't print. So I'm guessing it's one of the following:

    1. It definitely has a bad PPD for the eCUPS level I've installed
    (should the PPD be different?).
    2. Something needs to be updated (cups? ghostscript? gutenprint?)
    that has the correct printer model installed.

    Does anyone have any idea what I can do to get this working?

    Gene



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  • From "etpoole54"@1:3634/1000 to All on Tue Oct 12 14:21:00 2010

    As is defined in the subject, I have this HP printer, ethernet attached, and works perfectly with several Linux machines (CentOS 5.3 64-bit; Fedora 13 64-bit; Windows XP; Windows Vista; Windows 7). I've got 2 eCS machines (1.2R and 2.0 GA) and for the life of me, I cannot get this printer to print with either of me eCS machines! The CUPS installation goes without a hitch (I've got
    a HP DeskJet 990Cse USB
    attached that does work). But I get stymied at the point where I have to define
    the connection type (ipp; socket; lpd; etc.). I cannot find any clear definition. Does anyone have any idea of what's needed? I get the following messages:
    /cups/lib/cups/backend/hp.exe failed
    /cups/lib/cups/filter/hpcups.exe failed

    Here's some of the printers technical information:
    General Information
    Network Status Ready
    Active Connection Type Wired
    URL for Embedded Web Server http://192.168.1.106
    Hostname HP9BC1D9
    802.3 Wired
    Hardware Address (MAC) 00:25:b3:9b:c1:d9
    Link Configuration 100TX - Full
    IPv4
    IP Address 192.168.1.106
    Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
    Default Gateway 192.168.1.1
    Port 9100
    Status Enabled
    LPD
    Status Enabled
    mDNS
    Status Enabled
    Service Name Officejet Pro 8500
    A909a (9BC1D9)
    SLP
    Status Enabled





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