Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 02 March 2009 19:39:00 Robert Nichols wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
It sounds to me as though this is an hplip problem. The version in CentOS is not the latest, and doesn't support recent printers out-of-the-box. ISTR that I had to grab the relevant ppd file from one of my other boxes (or the Internet, of course) and feed that to CUPS, after which hplip could see my printer and scanner. (Mine is a PhotoSmart 7180).
According to the changelogs, support for the Photosmart C6100 series first appeared in hplip version 1.6.9. The latest version in the CentOS updates repository is 1.6.7. When I got my Photosmart C7180 I grabbed hplip-1.7.4a-3.fc6.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 6, and I've been running with that ever since.
I was about to download and install a later version when I decided to try just adding the ppd. It worked fine, and was less work, but either solution is fine.
I can see getting basic printing to work that way, but it surprises me greatly that just adding a ppd file would make hp-toolbox recognize a new printer model. But, if it works, it works.