HPLIP

HPLIP over print server and CUPS configuration

Asked by Sebastian Niehaus

I intend to use a HP PSC 1510 connected via USB to a AVM FritzBox. Besides being a DSL router/modem, the FritzBox acts as a print server listening on port 9100.
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[10:30:59][niehaus@crystalline:~]$ nmap fritz.box

Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2008-10-28 10:31 CET
Interesting ports on fritz.fonwlan.box (192.168.0.222):
Not shown: 1708 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
2049/tcp open nfs
5060/tcp open sip
8080/tcp open http-proxy
9100/tcp open jetdirect
9101/tcp open jetdirect

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.200 seconds

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I tried to add the printer in the CUPS web interface. Adding it as "AppSocket/HP JetDirect" device works. However, after trying to add it as "HP Printer (HPLIP)" I cannot figure which device URI I need to fill in in the next step.

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[10:41:31][niehaus@crystalline:~]$ hp-makeuri fritz.box

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.6b)
Device URI Creation Utility ver. 4.4

Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Device not found

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Any hints what I might be doing wrong?

I run Debian (Lenny), using hplip ver. 2.8.6b.

Thanks in advance,

Sebastian

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

HPLIP does not support sharing a printer over usb to the network.

You can do a search such as:

http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+share+printer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

for more information on how to do this on linux (in general).

If you want to use HPLIP with your printer and share it over the network an alternative solution is to use an HP Jetdirect to connect the printer to the network. Then you'd install HPLIP on each of the systems you want to print from and use hp-setup to configure a network print queue to the device.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Aaron

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Sebastian Niehaus (niehaus-web) said : 		#2

Okay, printing is possible without HPLIP. The reason why I wanted to configure HPLIP was the possibility to use the scanner of the PSC 1510. Is this possible if I buy a print server as the JetDirect 175X and install HPLIP?

Thanks,

Sebastian

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Yes the scanner will work if you are using a Jetdirect device.

Aaron

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Sebastian Niehaus (niehaus-web) said : 		#4

Using a JetDirect print server (175X) solved my problem, indeed.

Thank you

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Sebastian Niehaus (niehaus-web) said : 		#5

Thanks Aaron Albright, that solved my question.

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johnny (jrb81) said : 		#6

Hi,

I have the same problem (?) but either I could not figure out how to install the Jetdirect solution properly or it simply does not work in our case.

  https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/84760

Greets, jb