On Friday 28 January 2005 15:18, 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. FWIW: I have 9.0 pro and a PSC 2210 that was fully supported. You might have him try one of the other PSC printers. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

It works well will HP PSC 1210 Printer. I got it installed in first attempt. 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.

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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

Hello, On Jan 28 14:18 C Hamel wrote (shortened):

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. ... We're talking about SuSE 9 Pro,

Which 9.x version? 9.0, 9.1, or 9.2 ? As far as I remember in an older 9.x version there was a problem in the YaST2 printer config which doesn't match the autodetected model name correctly to the (often a bit different) model name which is stored in the PPD files. For general background information regarding this complicated stuff see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/03/jsmeix_print-einrichten-91.html "General information on setting up PostScript printers" If no matching PPD file was found the model may become shown as "unsupported". As workaround simply try all other listed PSC 12xx models. At least one should be supported in YaST. Additionally regarding HP all-in-one devices read http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/05/ke_hp-officejet.html Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/