On Friday 28 January 2005 02:18 pm, C Hamel wrote:
My neighbor wants his PSC 1210 HP printer set up and, though the driver is listed, when I select it and select 'next' I get an 'unsupported printer' message. Anyone else know what to do? We're talking about SuSE 9 Pro, here.
I haven't used the 1210 but these are the steps I took to get my spc 2410 to scan and print. From what I read and experienced with my 2410, you need to set up the printer with the ptal device created with ptal-init if you want scanning and printing. I've since seen a post or two saying that isn't necessary, but it has been for me. Also, yast doesn't seem to find/recognize the ptal device in setting up a printer. Again, I've read you can use yast to point to the uri created by ptal, but I haven't used and am not sure I understand how to do this. I used the cups browser interface. as root: (First I stopped everything) rcptal stop rccups stop ptal-init setup (respond to a few simple questions) rcptal start (not sure you need this... ptal-init setup may start ptal.) rccups start If you haven't set up a cups admin user, do it with lppasswd -a <user> (man lppasswd for more info). Point your browser to localhost:631 Select administration (you'll need the username and password here) > add printer. Fill in the blanks and work your way through the process. The important part is under device (after you name the printer). Scroll down the list box and select the PTAL device. Select the make and model as usual. If you don't see a PTAL device (and ptal-init setup found a device), it could be that ptal/cups weren't started or started in the wrong order (ptal before cups.) Hope that works for you. Doug