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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