Set up HP Network printer

[CloudBuilder]

Is there an easy way in Debian to set up a hp laserjet

I did it in Suse , in Red Hat in (K)ubuntu even in OSX .
They all accept the printer as a postscpript printer with no problems.

The printer is at a printserver which is normally not visible in the windows network.

I read a lot of documents, but it seems that I have to load a driver (Hijps...???)

I have managed to load the necessary Cup files an so I get
Aplications>>Desktop Preferences>>>System Tools Printing

But then the trouble begins. What ever choice I make I cant't find a hp 2550C color laserjet and if I take laserjets it does not function.

Is it possible to copy some files of Ubuntu?

Thanks for your help.


CloudBuilder

[junkman4547]

Not sure if this will help you, try add these packages

Foomatic-db
Foomatic-db-engine
Foomatic-db-hpijs
Foomatic-filters
Foomatic-db-gimp-print

Then try running ....print manager....again.

[Dapper Dan]

I thought it was just me. I had the same trouble with my officejet scanner, printer, copier. Configuring it under Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware was almost as easy as falling off a log backwards. With Debian, it was a nightmare. That's 'was" as in I gave up, not "was" as in I finally figured it out.

[exploder]

Try this, open a browser Konqueror/Mozilla whatever browser you have and typein
http:127.0.0.1:631 and press enter you will get the CUPS system. It is one another way to install a printer on linux based system if the other ways won't help

Go to "Do Adminstration Tasks" you can add/manage printers from there on.

Let me know if it worked

[borromini]

Do as stated above, and select lpd printer. You should check the config options of your print server (I for instance have my router as a print server, a US Robotics). It's address is 192.168.123.254, the printer queue is just plain 'lp'. The complete setup is lpd:192.168.123.254/lp. It was a real pain in the ass to figure out, but I finally made it .

Hope that helps .

[CloudBuilder]

Thank you EXPLODER and BORROMINI.

I did the following.

Browser >>> http:127.0.0.1:631 and got the cups system
Administration>>ADD Printer
Entered Name - Location - Description
Choosed Device: LPD/LPR host or printer
Device URI : lpd://192.168.1.155/lp (adress off the printserver)
Make POSTSCRIPT continue
Model GENERAL POSTSCRIPT..... continue

Then I choosed PRINTER and printed a testpage.

I got an error, but that was due to the fact that there was still another printer that didn't function. So I removed both and started again and
the printer started to print the picture.



As I saw the browser issue I remebered that I had done something like this befor. I will save this by my notes concerning Debian.

Thanks a lot both of you

CloudBuilder

[borromini]

No problem that's what we're for . Basically CUPS is present on every linux distro so you should get your printer to work with every single one .

[exploder]

No worries mate! Enjoy your printer

[elvis@linux]

it did't work for me..... I got the following:

An error occurred while loading http://127.0.0.1:631:


Could not connect to host 127.0.0.1 (port 631).

Do you think I have to log in as root on the KDE?

-elvis

[borromini]

Leave the colon at the end away:
127.0.0.1:631

You can login as root at the page itself, you can access the frontend as a regular user at all time, you just can't do everything .

Is CUPS running?