With great difficulty, I think I've found one or more ppd files for an HP Laser 2200D. They're all for various old versions of Windows. Will any of them work in Leap? Trying to get some kind of printer going until I recover from the lightning strike, and I'm pretty sure this boat anchor still works. One example is this: LaserJet USB (DOT4) communication driver for HP LaserJet 2200d This driver only solution provides DOT4 USB bi-directional communication functionality on Windows 8 and higher operating systems. Thanx--doug
*LaserJet USB (DOT4) communication driver for HP LaserJet 2200d*
Ignore Windows. Look at yast, you'll probably find a CUPS entry for it or something close enough to work. I'm using a HP printer, a 1012 model, that my lawyer gave me when Windows 2000 made it abandonware. It does 12PPM (or something like that) and my complete cost has been a replacement toner cartridge four or five years ago.
Thank you for your kind words. I have discovered that the lightning did a lot more damage than I first expected. I cannot reach anything on the LAN except the internet connection thru the router. Not a laptop (which is also damaged) not the Epson printer, which is reachable from the laptop but not from this main machine. I can't ping anything, I can't run nmap from here, and from the laptop it runs and shows only the router. Windows 10 is also on this machine and it is in the same condition. Right now this is the only device in the house that I can use for email, and the laptop is the only device that can print (to the Epson which is also damaged--the FAX connection to the phone line is shot.) I will be looking for a disk test routine, but I don't have much hope in it. (It's not the router--I'm using an old one that was not connected when the blast hit.) --doug
On 7/21/21 8:19 PM, Bill Swisher wrote:
Bill and Carlos: I did find a listing on the HP website that says the printer file exists--how to get it I didn't discover--but the problem is more basic: the computer can't see the printer. The printer can do a self-test print, but Yast can't see it. I may have to junk the old beast, but it was running when I took it out of service to add a new HP that could print on both sides. (Windows can't see it either.) Is there any way to verify that the computer CAN actually reach the machine? --doug
On 04/08/2021 00.16, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
YaST almost never sees any network printer. You have to tell YaST the address of the printer. Testing? Point firefox at the IP of the printer; if it is a networked printer you should see a web page of your printer. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
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