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DrPike

Member

From: Firenze (Italy)

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 25

[EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

Why I'm so unlucky?
I have to setup an HP PSC 2355 all-in-one scanner/printer, and I have no success.

First of all I want to make the printer working.

The system is well updated, and so I installed cups, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-hpijs, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-db-ppd and foomatic-filters, as well as ghostscript. Let' say almost everything!

On KDE I'd like to set up step-by-step the printer in the backend http://localhost:631 as root.

Before starting I control if everything is ok with printer (modules side) with lsusb:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 03f0:4911 Hewlett-Packard 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0025 Microsoft Corp. IntelliEye Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Ok,the printer is there. Now, let me check the kernel modules with: lsmod | grep usb:

usbhid                 38048  0 
hid                    26240  1 usbhid
usb_storage            79296  0 
ide_core              112580  1 usb_storage
ff_memless              5256  1 usbhid
usblp                  11776  0 
usbcore               112264  7 ohci_hcd,usbhid,usb_storage,usblp,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

Everything seems to be ok. Good. But unfortunately installing the printer as HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs  (recommended), at the Device URI: usb://HP/PSC%202350%20series?serial=MY566F1046KJ as found by
driver... no way to print because of the error:

psc2355 "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"

I tried so many time to restart cups, as well as reinstalling filters and drivers... No success

Any idea for me?

Tnx
DP

Last edited by DrPike (2007-09-04 19:53:52)

aRcHaTe

Member

Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

cups...gtklp...gnome-printer-manager...try some...

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Its a sick world we live in....

DrPike

Member

From: Firenze (Italy)

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 25

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

gnome manager in KDE?
Bump :-(

The strange thing is PSC + CUPS work fine with Ubuntu, the other distro I have on the same PC...
This really I don't understand...
DP

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

For the HP PSC devices you will need hplip to get it to work.

Simple:
- pacman -S cups hplip ghostscript
- put hplip and cups in DAEMONS in rc.conf (that order!)
- start hplip and cups (same order, again!)
- http://localhost:631
- add your printer
- see how it detects your multifunction device

DrPike

Member

From: Firenze (Italy)

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 25

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

Tnx JGC,

I'll try as soon as possible and I'll replay my results!

DrPike

Member

From: Firenze (Italy)

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 25

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

YES! This sequence works perfectly with HP PSC 2355 all-in-one:

1) pacman -Sy cups hplip ghostscript

2) pacman -Sy foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-db-ppd foomatic-filters

3) edit as root the file /etc/rc.d and add hplip and cupsd in the DAEMONS entry:

4) start hplip and cupsd daemons by hand:

5) switch on the PSC and check if it's properly detected:

6) Configure the PSC using a browser to open the url http://localhost:631

With CUPS 1.2.x the best results I've got are with the following settings:

Make and Model: HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
Device URI: hp:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY566F1046KJ
Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: Controled by 'Printout Mode'
Hope this should help other PSC2355 users

DrP

Last edited by DrPike (2007-09-04 19:52:59)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

It was probably a good idea to correct JGC instructions if you had to do things in a slightly different way,
or to elaborate the parts that were not clear enough, but there is really no need for pictures :
1) it takes more time for you compared to just copy/pasting commands or output of commands
2) it takes more space
3) it also takes more times for the user since it can't be copy/pasted.

Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate your contribution to the community, especially after seeing several times people saying :
"Thanks, I got it working"
without even saying how they did it.

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

The pictures make my instructions more clear and should give new users a good help to get their printer working. Usually I write very short instructions, because I almost can't imagine users don't know how to setup (arch)linux. It's the same as when people are watching how I fix their computer, they can't follow my mouse movements.

DrPike

Member

From: Firenze (Italy)

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 25

Re: [EASY SOLVED] PSC 2355 + CUPS + FOOMATIC make me crazy !!!

shining,

I'm working on IT since 15 years. Forums and blogs are magnificent resources for people who need help in making their life easier. The main contributor for this topic is JGC, and my idea was only to add some images for users (there are a lot of them not so skilled you're) without experience in Linux. And  yes, this is also in order to avoid the debatable habit of leaving 3ds orphans with phrases like "tnx" and no more details on results.

I had a success and I reported it with care. What is wrong?

Have fun!
DrPike