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  • 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 "Daniel Caetano"@1:3634/1000 to All on Wed Sep 29 08:55:23 2010


    Hi,

    On Linux package there is two flavors of PPD: plain PostScript
    and that which uses HPLIP library. If your OfficeJet supports
    PostScript, just the correct PPD will do the trick. If not, you'll
    prabably need the HPLIP package provided by Paul Smedley.
    At this time I am just waiting for the latest release of HPLIP,
    since I was not able to make it run with my printer... in the mean
    time, I am using the PostScript version, since my printer supports
    PostScript v3.

    Regards,

    Daniel Caetano
    daniel@caetano.eng.br


    On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:38 -0400, 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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