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#1 2009-11-13 02:39:38
- egan
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Help Needed Setting Up USB Printer (CUPS) [SOLVED]
I have an HP LaserJet 1320.
I have installed cups and hplip. Following the wiki, I blacklisted usblp.
When I go to add a printer, all the shows up are SCSI and various Network choices, but no real printers. I have done this in a previous install before, but for some reason I cannot add the printer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Now I just need to find the right driver! Please help. 
Last edited by egan (2009-11-14 17:03:37)
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#2 2009-11-13 03:10:36
- egan
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Re: Help Needed Setting Up USB Printer (CUPS) [SOLVED]
Okay, I was able add the printer after restarting the daemon... 
But now, I am having a problem with drivers I think. I chose PCL 6 first, and it printed a page that said:
PCL XL error
Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: IllegalTag
Operator: 0x1b
Position: 1155
So I changed it to PCL 4/5, and got the same thing.
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#3 2009-11-13 03:19:25
- egan
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Re: Help Needed Setting Up USB Printer (CUPS) [SOLVED]
Okay, I got the Gutenprint driver for my Printer but the quality seems kind of low. Does anyone know a good driver for this printer?
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#4 2009-11-13 03:31:00
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Re: Help Needed Setting Up USB Printer (CUPS) [SOLVED]
I have a working HP printer, and have never blacklisted usblp... as a matter of fact i have it in my modules in rc.conf
I installed hplip and then added the printer in cups. all working fine.
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#5 2009-11-13 04:43:37
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Re: Help Needed Setting Up USB Printer (CUPS) [SOLVED]
Please don't bump your own threads continuously. There's an 'Edit' button on the bottom right of the post area. Also, please mark your threads as [SOLVED] when they are. You can append that by editing the title of the first post.
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#6 2009-11-14 17:03:16
- egan
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Re: Help Needed Setting Up USB Printer (CUPS) [SOLVED]
Looks like I got this one solved. Apparently my install of hplip was corrupted, since none of the supposed drivers were available. Reinstalling hplip showed me a wealth of new drivers to try. I found one that seemed to match my printer and it worked.
Thanks for putting up with me anyway, when I am stressed I do rash things. 
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