I jumped the gun. Sorry.
I entered that suggested driver and then it asked me for the model of my
printer and there it was. But now it is asking me for a username and password
for 'CUPS at localhost.localdomain' and it isn't root's password. So what is
it; would someone let me know?
On Friday 22 December 2006 6:55 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> At local host:631 in the screen 'Device for <title>' there is a selection
> under device which is hp:/par/DESKJET_930C.....' My printer is a 932C. I
> was thinking that it automagicly detected it and is suggesting a driver
> that might work. Is this the case? If it isn't how do I go about getting
> the proper driver? (I went to cups.org and looke through all the Ds
> (deskjet) and HPs (hewlett packard)) Strange thing was that not evev the
> suggested driver was there.
>
> Open to suggestions.
>
> On Friday 22 December 2006 7:43 am, chip33az@netscape.net wrote:
> > bmike101@cox.net wrote:
> > > Thursday 21 December 2006 4:46 pm, saw the creation of:
> > >> From: chip33az@netscape.net
> > >> To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
> > >> <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> Cc:
> > >> Subject: Re: printer
> > >> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:45:12 -0700
> > >>
> > >> I don't know. I typically add printers via the CUPS interface ( in
> > >> the browser goto localhost:631 ).
> > >>
> > >> When I added the packages below, I get a long listing of the printers.
> > >> Make sure you stop/stop CUPS after adding the packages.
> > >
> > > I did restart CUPS. It appears that localhost.... and
> > > kaddprinterwizard are merely frontends of the same thing because both
> > > of them listed the same DESKJET printers as available. Those printers
> > > are the 1500, the 1020, 1005, and the 1000.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I restarted it wrong....
> > > killall cupsd
> > > cupsd
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> > I would just install all ppd files you see in synaptic. The two that I
> > have installed on mine are - foomatic-filters-ppds and hpijs-ppds. I
> > also have foomatic-filters and hpijs installed (along with the HPLIP
> > since I do scanning with mine).
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