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Old 04-30-2006   #1 (permalink)
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HP injet printer help

I have one of the newer HP Inkjet Printers (the ones that come with a copier, scanner, etc) and now i need help with having it work on Linux(Ubuntu 5.10)

i already installed http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ from Synaptic
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Click here (a link to the CUPS configuration utility on your computer and bookmark it), sign in with a new administrator name and password (choose something you won't forget!), click onto "Printers" then "Add Printer." Follow the directions to configure your printer. Hopefully it's not so new that you can't get it configured and up and running. See here to find out if it is supported. If successful, check back in and we'll see if we can get that scanner working.
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I have an hp officejet 6210 and scanner, copy, and print all work with linux. I use hplip, sane-backends, and xsane.

once you install sane backends edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and add "hpaio" to the list.
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Ok, so i used the Gnome CUPS manager, registered my printer (HP PSC-1510)
but it still won't print...

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Description: HP-PSC-1510
Location:
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
Device URI: /
so am i missing the "Location"? and how do i find that out?
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I would really suggest configuring cups through your web browser and choice and simply clicking on the link provided by Dapper Dan above and then installing your printer that way and printing a test page. Sometimes when you use another program to configure another program you meet errors that are undetectable and untraceable for us to help you.
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Hm, well alright, i just used the Gnome CUPS manager because it wouldn't let me log in. I used my root password and user password and it wouldn't let me log in either and i'm not too sure how to go about getting an account on there when i recived a message like this..
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Administrative commands are disabled in the web interface for security reasons. Please use the GNOME CUPS manager (System > Administration > Printing).
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Administrative commands are disabled in the web interface for security reasons. Please use the GNOME CUPS manager (System > Administration > Printing).
You have to add the user "cupsys" to the "shadow" group:
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sudo adduser cupsys shadow
As explained in /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian.gz

Then reboot.

Then you will be able to configure your printer through the web interface (http://localhost:631).
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K. i did that, rebooted and tried logging in as both "cupsys" and "cupsys shadow" but didn't get in.

it also says this on the front page of the CUPS page
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Administrative tasks have been disabled for security reasons. Please use Menu System > Administration > Printing.
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K. i did that, rebooted and tried logging in as both "cupsys" and "cupsys shadow" but didn't get in.
You are not supposed to log in as "cupsys" or "cupsys shadow", you log in with your username and password.

Works on my Ubuntu machine...
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Alright! so i set up the printer and got it working..and just scanned something with xsane. Thanks for the help guys.
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