Re: Setting up HP1020 Laserjet printer

On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 05:30 -0400, Phil Savoie wrote:
> 
> On 09/24/2011 11:32 PM, Chris wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 20:27 -0400, Gary Montalbine wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/24/2011 06:31 PM, Chris wrote:
> >>> For something so simple I'm having a heck of a time. A friend of mine
> >>> sold me the above printer for $25.00, it's like new. A popup keeps
> >>> saying I need a propritary driver. I already have HPLIP installed and I
> >>> know it's working since my HP6L works just fine. I've also looked in the
> >>> .dat file which shows all the HPLIP supported printers and the 1020 is
> >>> listed.  When trying to print a test page from the HP Device manager it
> >>> says it starts and finishes the print job but nothing happens. I see the
> >>> below in my syslog:
> >>>
> >>
> >> If I have a problem with my HP I go to MCC -> hardware and remove the 
> >> printer and then reinstall. It usually works. I would also try and 
> >> install the driver as it may be unique to your printer even if hplip is 
> >> installed. I was having trouble with my printer and was directed to 
> >> check /etc/cups/ppd to see if a file for my printer was there.
> >>
> >> Gary
> > 
> > There is a file for the 1020 there. No matter what I do it keeps popping
> > up as needing a proprietary driver. I've even installed foo2js which was
> > suggested over on the alt.os.mandriva newsgroup and still no joy.
> >  
> 
> I hit the send button too quick.  I also had to unplug the usb cable and
> plug it back in on boot up when the cups was starting.  Once it found
> the printer all was well.
> 
> Phil

Thanks Phil, maybe I missed something in the install instructions. I'm
going to go through and re-install in a little while. Do you have a
'lp0' file and if so, where is it located? The directions say that it
will be in /dev/usb however I didn't have that folder so I created it
but the file still wasn't put there. Instead it was located
in /dev/bus/usb/005. Could you check and let me know where yours is.
I'll get back to you after I re-install the software.

Thanks
Chris

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