HP 930c printer not detected

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gliezl
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HP 930c printer not detected

#1 Post by gliezl »

I happen to drop by my friend's office. I noticed she's still using windows 98. And she has problems with spyware & such stuff. I told her we can try Puppy linux on her PC without affecting her files. I booted Puppy, and to my surprise, it detected all hardware except for one thing, the printer. It is a HP 930c connected via parallel port. My question is, does puppy support such brand of hardware? I tried Printer Wizard, but I can't see the printer's name. What will I do? Would someone be kind enough to help? :?

I am new to linux.

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#2 Post by Ian »

Have you tried using the HP DeskJet 900 series driver in the wizard, sometimes you can get printers working using a different driver.

Bruce B

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the pcl-900 has been reported to work for that printer

if that doesn't work try:

http://www.linuxprinting.org

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

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#4 Post by gliezl »

Bruce B wrote:the pcl-900 has been reported to work for that printer

if that doesn't work try:

http://www.linuxprinting.org

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
I've used that dirver and it didn't worked. :cry: hu hu hu
Could you please give me a step by step procedure? Am I missing something?

I'll try that site. Thanks. :)

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#5 Post by Ian »

If you have trouble following the steps in the printer wizard here are some tips.

When you are adding the printer in PDQ make sure that you type in lp0 for a parallel port printer.
In the setup for the printer you may have to remove the % from the path and also you may have to tick EOF.

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