Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". . Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
HTH, roger
Anne
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