Geoff,
Thanks for your reply. To test out the Linux setup I tried plugging the
5610 directly into the Ubuntu machine. It automatically identified the
printer and was able to print to it without a problem. The problem only
seems to be when printing to it on the XP machine via Samba. The
entries in the printers.conf file are identical except for the DeviceURI
line. The files in /etc/cups/ppd are identical. I already have
foomatic installed.
I even tried modifying the working entry to use Samba but it had the
same behavior.
David Suna
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:32:39PM +0300, David Suna wrote:
I haven't been able to find a driver for the 5610. I have hplip and
hplip-ppds installed but I don't know if this is used by the Samba print
drivers or not.
Samba does not have print drivers. It has a program called SMBPRINT which
takes a byte stream ALREADY FORMATTED FOR THE PRINTER and passes it to the
printer.
What your probably are trying to do is print an ASCII stream or a Postscript
file to a printer that does not understand them.
Go to www.linuxprinting.org and see how they set up CUPS.
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_5610
For example, I have a different but similar device.
My CUPS printers.conf file contains:
<DefaultPrinter xxxxx-hp>
Info hp Officejet 6100
Location xxxxx's office
DeviceURI smb://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hp2
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
My ppd file contains among other things, the text:
*% You may save this file as 'HP-OfficeJet_6110-hpijs.ppd'
It's name is /etc/cups/ppd/<printername>.ppd replace <printername> with the
name of
the printer.
Install the foomatic scripts from linuxprinting.org.
Before YellowDog dropped their mailing lists, I posted complete sets of
directions
for CUPS. You can find them by STFW'ing for my name and "CUPS yellowdog".
Geoff.
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