[CentOS] Can't add printer

Wed Jul 23 16:42:32 UTC 2014
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 04:14:07PM +0000, Wes James wrote:
> 
> 
> You may not find any Linux drivers on the official driver page but ...
> try the HPLIP drivers
> <http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/color_laserjet/hp_color_laserjet_cp4020_series.html>
> 
> -- Arun Khan


> Thankfully just a few days ago the question came how to find a file in a package so I tried:
> 
> yum whatprovides hpps
> 
> but nothing so I tried
> 
> yum what provides */hpps
> 
> and it said it was in hplip so I installed that.
> 
> I click on OK on the error and attempted to print a Test Page.  But nothing came out.  Do I need to restart cups after adding hplip?
> 
> I found the Print Status and the job says “Stopped"

You can try running hp-setup  (or hp-setup -i <printer_IP_address>
the hplip's own setup program.


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