Re: Re: PSC 1210 - can scan but can't print

Hi Bruce,

Sorry, I forget which distribution you are using. In debian (which I'm 
using) you open a console, become root, and type: /etc/init.d/cupsys 
restart, but depending on your distribution one of the following may 
be appropriate (without the quotes):


"/etc/init.d/cups restart" 
"/etc/init.d/cupsd restart" 
"killall -HUP cupsd" 

Ater you have successfully restarted cups (which should only take a 
second or two) open up a web browser, and in the address field type: 
http://localhost:631

This will open up the cups web interface. (You will be prompted for 
your username and password--enter root for username and then type 
your root password.) Click on "manage printers" and in the next 
window select "add printer." In the next window you'll be asked to 
name your printer (call it anything, as long as it's one word with no 
spaces) The remaining two fields are optional--you can leave them 
blank--but for the location you can enter the hostname of whatever 
computer the printer is connected to, and in the description you can 
enter printer, or any other indentifying comment that you choose. 
Click continue and in the device field in the new window that opens 
you will see ptal as one option among many. You must choose ptal. 
Click continue again. In the next window choose a driver--you can 
check the sourceforge hpoj web site for the suggested driver for your 
printer: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml

Click continue one more time and you're done. You can then go back to 
the main cups web page and try printing a test page.

Hope this helps.

Tim

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:29 pm, bbales wrote:
> And from Tim.
>
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:51, Tim Folger wrote:
> > Hi Bruce,
> >
> > Did you make sure to restart cups before you entered the cups web
> > interface? Unless you restart cups, you won't see the ptal option
> > under the device section, and you won't be able to print. (You
> > probably know this already, but I thought I'd mention it just in
> > case.)
> >
> > Tim
>
> I tried to restart cups:
> /usr/local/sbin/ptal-cups restart
>
> and I got the following:
> ptal-connect: connecting to device "mlc:usb:psc_1200_series"... 
> successful.
>
> And never got a prompt back until I copied it with control-c.
>
> I don't know what you are referring to with "ptal option under
> device section in the cups web interface."  I see no device
> section.
> bruce


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