CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:


> Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just
> edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly....


Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts....
surely one of the more astute admins will jump in?
(and keep me from looking.....foolish?)

So continuing to research this I find some new-2-me flags
on gentoo:

eix hplip
* net-print/hplip
Available versions: 2.8.6b ~3.9.8-r3 3.9.12-r1 ~3.10.2 {cupsddk dbus doc
fax gtk +hpcups hpijs libnotify minimal -new-hpcups parport policykit ppds qt4
scanner snmp static-ppds -udev-acl}

eix -e cups
[i] net-print/cups
Available versions: 1.3.11-r1!t (~)1.3.11-r2!t (~)1.4.2-r1!t {X acl avahi
dbus debug gnutls java (+)jpeg kerberos ldap linguas_da linguas_de linguas_en
linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_he linguas_id
linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_nl linguas_no linguas_pl linguas_pt
linguas_pt_BR linguas_ru linguas_sv linguas_zh linguas_zh_TW pam perl php (+)png
ppds python samba slp (+)ssl static (+)tiff xinetd zeroconf}

ef (explain flag) is a little script from Ciaran...

ef cupsddk
Add support for net-print/cupsddk which enables dynamic PPD files (recommended)

ef hpcups
Build the hpcups driver for cups (by HP)

ef new-hpcups
Build the new hpcups driver for cups which is no longer based on APDK (by HP)


Sooooo, my question is has anyone any knowledge of these flags
and with cups (/etc/cups/ppd/*driver*)

???


James

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

James wrote:

James<wireless<at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:




Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just
edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly....



Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts....
surely one of the more astute admins will jump in?
(and keep me from looking.....foolish?)

So continuing to research this I find some new-2-me flags
on gentoo:

< snip>


Sooooo, my question is has anyone any knowledge of these flags
and with cups (/etc/cups/ppd/*driver*)

???


James




This is what I have for use FLAGS:

root@smoker ~ # emerge -pv hplip cups

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls
java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
-samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
-pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 USE="gtk hpcups libnotify
parport qt4 -doc -fax -hpijs -minimal -new-hpcups -policykit -scanner
-snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl" 0 kB


Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB

* IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news to read news items.

root@smoker ~ #

I have a HP printer too. I went into cups and looked for your printer,
your model is in there. So, if you duplicate my USE flags, you should
be able to find your printer in that LOOOOONG list of printers.


I think ppds and hpcups is the key ones. I would at least start with
those.


Hope that helps.

Dale

:-) :-)

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I think ppds and hpcups is the key ones. I would at least start with
> those.


So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
or the other?


You use the hpcups flag and not the new-hpcups flag?


James

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:



> [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls
> java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
> -samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
> -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB


I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
flags?


Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?



curiously,
James

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:14 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
> or the other?

hplip is a set of drivers, for use by CUPS and other programs.


--
Neil Bothwick

Programmer (n): A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing
with inanimate objects.

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:14 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:



So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
or the other?


hplip is a set of drivers, for use by CUPS and other programs.





I think Neil is correct. I have both. I don't know if it will work
without cups, never tried it, but I know it doesn't work without hplip.


I put those USE flags in my make.conf. I think cups and hplip is the
only ones that use them anyway. I hope that changing that and
re-emerging will get your printer working fully.


Dale

:-) :-)

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

James wrote:

Dale<rdalek1967<at> gmail.com> writes:





[ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls
java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
-samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
-pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB



I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
flags?


Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?



curiously,
James




I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If
I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it
on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse.
May as well be Greek. ;-)


Dale

:-) :-)

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

On Thursday 18 March 2010 21:55:14 Dale wrote:
> James wrote:
> > Dale<rdalek1967<at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls
> >> java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
> >> -samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
> >> -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB
> >
> > I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
> > see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
> > flags?
> >
> >
> > Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?
> >
> >
> >
> > curiously,
> > James
>
> I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If
> I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it
> on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse.
> May as well be Greek. ;-)


Avahi, mDNSResponder and bonjour are all apps implementing zeroconf - allowing
network discovery. Say you want to find a printer on the network, then you can
ask out loud and your app will "discover" them using DNS technologies without
the printer admin having to tell you the name. Normally, you have to know the
printer is there and either know it's name or IP to find it. These apps remove
that limitation. It is also completely unlike Windows broadcasts.

avahi is the Gnome app
mDNSResponder was a KDE-3.5 thing built into kdelibs, with KDE-4 they have
switched to using either avahi (with mDNSResponder support enabled) or
mDNSResponder itself
bonjour is a MacOs app

zeroconf is not an app, it is a USE flag telling kde-libs to build support for
this auto-discovery. It will use avahi or MDNSResponder depending on what it
finds.


--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

On Thursday 18 March 2010 19:55:14 Dale wrote:
> James wrote:
> > Dale<rdalek1967<at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls
> >> java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php
> >> -samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja
> >> -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB
> >
> > I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
> > see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
> > flags?
> >
> >
> > Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?
> >
> >
> >
> > curiously,
> > James
>
> I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If
> I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it
> on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse.
> May as well be Greek. ;-)

Hmm ... they're not. Avahi is daemon utilising multicast DNS and DNS Service
Discovery for devices and services which are advertising themselves on your
network. Zeroconf is the standard used for this purpose. Unless you expect
to plug and play I am not sure you need them on your machine. I think that
for a typical setup where you tell your PCs where the printer is there isn't
much benefit to justifying installing their dependencies and running a
daemon.

--
Regards,
Mick

CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
 

James schrieb am 18.03.2010 14:37:

> So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer:
> "OfficeJet Pro 8500"; so I'm using this driver:
> HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C.

According to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html
your printer is supported sine hplip 3.9.2, so there should be a driver.

New versions of hplip do not install ppd files for every printer they support
anymore. The ppd file is generated at run time by using hp-setup.

> eix hplip
> * net-print/hplip
> Available versions: 2.8.6b ~3.9.8-r3 3.9.12-r1 ~3.10.2 {cupsddk dbus doc
> fax gtk +hpcups hpijs libnotify minimal -new-hpcups parport policykit ppds qt4
> scanner snmp static-ppds -udev-acl}

About the hplip use flags

> cupsddk

Not relevant as it has been removed in recent versions of hplip. With newer
versions of cups you wont need cupsddk as it has been integrated into cups.

> hpcups

Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver.

> hpijs

See above.

> new-hpcups

You don't need it.

> static-ppds

It seems for some printers the new method of creating the ppd file is not
available. So if you have problems with installing your printer by using
hp-setup you should try installing hplip with the static-ppds flag and try
hp-setup again.

> So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one
> or the other?
>
>
> You use the hpcups flag and not the new-hpcups flag?

Hplip needs cups!

> I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not
> see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those
> flags?
>
> Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ?

You don't need avahi or zeroconf for hplip, which does not work for current
versions of hplip due to bugs in cups anyway. This is only needed if you have a
networked printer. You can still detect the printer without the mDNS
(avahi,zeroconf) method through SLP. You should be able to select the detection
method at run time with hp-setup.

--
Daniel Pielmeier