Hello, On Sep 11 15:48 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
If I try from Yast
Avoid generic printer setup tools like YaST, Gnome and KDE printer setup tools, CUPS web frontend when you have a printer setup tool "hp-setup" from HP which is exactly made for their driver for their devices. Alternatively use CUPS command line tools if you want to have full control what hapens but read http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell before.
It is a PostScript printer and you don't need any driver at all for normal printing - only the right PPD file - that is all.
And the file can be found.... where? :-?
Somewhere on the CD which is supplied with the printer or somewhere on the Internet from HP ;-) Of course I know that "somewhere" doesn't help you much and that searching HP's web site is just another dungeon...
By the way: I like the openSUSE build service.
:-)
Me too, but it is not easy to know the purpose of each repo. I do not know if the "anubisq1" repo is for general use or not, and in this case, your repo is not listed.
Yes. Again this doesn't help you but it is the truth that you don't know in advance what kind of quality RPMs from whoever's repository are.
Ok, it is webpin fault, it did not list your repo for 11.0 when searching for hplip. I found it for 10.3, changed the name, added the repo. Installing. Found also "pkpgcounter", looks cute, calculating ink coverage. Installing too. Thanks :-)
A nice example that the same repository can contain totally different kind of quality RPMs. E.g. HPLIP is much better tested than pkpgcounter. I only packaged the latter so that it builds (someone asked for it) but have no time for anything else.
Ok, I installed like:
Description: HP Color LaserJet CP1515n Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.5.23 Location: Local Printer Driver: HP Color LaserJet CP1515n Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.5.23 Printer State: processing, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1515n
I haven't seen "postscript", but the list is so big and not searchable... it might be there.
It isn't there. Currently I use HPLIP 2.8.7 on my workstation (do NOT use FACTORY packages on your system) and there I have only: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- root@host# lpinfo -l -m | grep -A3 manufacturer-PPDs/hplip | grep 1515 Model: name = manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/hp-color_laserjet_cp1515n-hpijs-pcl3.ppd.gz make-and-model = HP Color LaserJet cp1515n Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.7.3 device-id = MFG:HP;MDL:hp_color_laserjet_cp1515n;DES:hp_color_laserjet_cp1515n; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I.e. there is no PostScript PPD included in HPLIP yet.
Printing fails. I get a printed page with this:
PCL XL error Subsystem: KERNEL Error: IllegalAttribute Operator: BeginPage Position: 2
I.e. your printer doesn't "understand" what the hpijs driver has sent to it. Is your printer perhaps set to "understand" only PostScript? If it "understands" PostScript, it prints the color ellipse using lp -d <queue-name> -o raw /usr/share/doc/packages/ghostscript-library/examples/colorcir.ps This is a bit strange because the model specification at HP http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328060-3328070-33... reads: --------------------------------------------------------------- Standard Printer Languages: HP PCL 6, HP Postscript level 3 emulation --------------------------------------------------------------- And the above "PCL XL" is equivalent to "PCL 6". I.e. it should "understand" it but perhaps there is simply a bug in the driver which produces wrong PCL6? I found (via Google) this one: https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/33380 Ahhh: ------------------------------------------------------------- using HPLIP 2.8.5 ... There is a problem with the 1515/1518 printers. ... Edit the file /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat ... The sections in the models.dat have been corrected for the next release. ------------------------------------------------------------- I guess it is easiest to use a newer HPLIP version. By the way I: A nice experience of a really horrible install of a PostScript printer. Why the heck is there no PostScript PPD provided by HP when it is a PostScript printer? Or does "HP Postscript level 3 emulation" perhaps mean that PostScript is only emulated by the (Windows) driver? Please test as described above whether or not this device really understands PostScript. By the way II: Have in mind that HPLIP is made only by a few people at HP (i.e. one cannot expect that they can test any model really thorougly). Therefore I think it would help them very much when many many users of HPLIP write to the HP management that they buy HP printers because there is a actively maintained free Linux driver. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org