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windsheep

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Registered: 2011-06-29

Posts: 17

10 years old Laserjet 6p - any tricks?

Hi!

I'm trying to install a HP Laserjet 6p on a Arch Linux system. Yes, the printer is from 10 years ago, but it still works. - Hopefully. It works fine on Windows and MacOS machines with Gutenprint drivers (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/). Of course I installed these drivers on Arch, and I thought it might work, too.

I use a USB<->Parallel adapter. I guess cups needs to be told somehow, to load a certain module? At least I have problems finding out how to continue from here:

[257340.384555] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 14 using ehci_hcd
[257340.493309] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 14 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x067B pid 0x2305

The hp-devicemanager tells me, that there are no devices. Is there anything I can do to make cups/hp-tools accept my printer as a device? Like some kernel-module or cups config?

Best,
windsheep

Last edited by windsheep (2012-05-17 11:14:51)

windscape

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Registered: 2010-04-30

Posts: 69

Re: 10 years old Laserjet 6p - any tricks?

Hi windsheep,

According to the USB printer troubleshooting section of the CUPS Arch Wiki entry here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cu … CUPS_1.4.x

You need to blacklist the usblp module since CUPS uses libusb and printer USB devices directly. Perhaps following the troubleshooting steps there will help.