I feel a bit foolish about this one. I have a new box that doesn't have a parallel port for my HP LaserJet 1200. I bought a USB to parallel port cable, and with an enormous amount of experimentation, Googling and guessing, actually had it working. Then I installed the MPlayer plug-ins for Mozilla and the install unloaded almost all of my KDE4 environment. When I tried to reload KDE4, the box was very unstable and extremely unresponsive. I then did a re-install of SuSE 11.1. I had backed up my repo list, so I got my system back to where it should be, with MPlayer stuff installed easily. However, I forgot to save the printer configuration files and have not been able to get the HP printer back. I can cat a file to /dev/usb/lp0 and it does print, but programs will not print to the printer and the Yast printer setup is ridiculously hard to use. I'm also using TurboPrint 2.10.1 and it won't properly setup the printer either. Auto detection does not work with any program I've tried, include CUPS manager and the KDE printer setup program. To the best of my recollection, the printer setup was something like "tpu://epson/dev/usb/lp0" (I know, but "epson" worked), but I can't come up with the exact string to make it all work. Any advice out there? TIA, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Jul 1 18:27 Jim Sabatke wrote (shortened):
... I have a new box that doesn't have a parallel port for my HP LaserJet 1200. I bought a USB to parallel port cable ...
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1 I wonder why your HP LaserJet 1200 has no USB port because my HP LaserJet 1220 has one. A HP LaserJet 1220 is a HP LaserJet 1200 printer with the optional scanner unit mounted by default. A HP LaserJet 1220 and accordingly a HP LaserJet 1200 is a true PostScript printer which works perfectly without any special driver. Additionally a HP LaserJet 1200/1220 works also perfectly in PCL mode with HP's printer driver software HPLIP which is included in Suse Linux / openSUSE. If your HP LaserJet 1200 has an USB port, use it. Then it's setup will work perfectly out-of-the box (including autodetection) - just as it works and worked all the time for my HP LaserJet 1220. 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
Thanks for the info. I inherited the LJ1200 from a neighbor who's company had provided for a home computer. When they upgraded him, they told him to recycle it, so I inherited it with no packaging or manual. I assumed the extant parallel cable was the only interface. After your note, I checked and there is indeed a USB port available on the printer. I've ordered a cable online and I'm sure I will have it working easily when it arrives. Many thanks, Jim Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jul 1 18:27 Jim Sabatke wrote (shortened):
... I have a new box that doesn't have a parallel port for my HP LaserJet 1200. I bought a USB to parallel port cable ...
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1
I wonder why your HP LaserJet 1200 has no USB port because my HP LaserJet 1220 has one. A HP LaserJet 1220 is a HP LaserJet 1200 printer with the optional scanner unit mounted by default.
A HP LaserJet 1220 and accordingly a HP LaserJet 1200 is a true PostScript printer which works perfectly without any special driver.
Additionally a HP LaserJet 1200/1220 works also perfectly in PCL mode with HP's printer driver software HPLIP which is included in Suse Linux / openSUSE.
If your HP LaserJet 1200 has an USB port, use it. Then it's setup will work perfectly out-of-the box (including autodetection) - just as it works and worked all the time for my HP LaserJet 1220.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
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