On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:59:04 Roger Wells wrote: > 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. > Thanks. I hope to get to this later today. > 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. > I distinctly remember that when I installed hplip on this (Mandriva) laptop for the C7180 I also had the 4x6 problem. I found that there were three places that could affect it. I think they were CUPS setup, KPrinter setup and hplip setup. Two out of three were correct. The third said 4x6. I'm not certain, but I think I had to change KPrinter defaults. Anyway, that's the line to investigate. It didn't take me too long to find it, so I'm sure you will find it too. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090313/a9c6a5db/attachment-0003.sig>