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TBH i tried 2400 dpi and the colour was more intensive than the same file printed at 600dpi

Thanks rcrsn51!

I know someone else mentioned it earlier but it was a great idea to link this thread to the CUPS wizard. I was able to download your pet in order to wirelessly connect to my password protected Windows Vista machine which has our printer connected to it via USB. I can now print from my Netbook using Slacko 5.33.

Hello, I am using slacko puppy 5.3.3 and I have a canon ip2600 printer.
Is it possible to create a .pet file to install this printer on my system.

Thank you

smiler411 wrote:Hello, I am using slacko puppy 5.3.3 and I have a canon ip2600 printer. Is it possible to create a .pet file to install this printer on my system.

I have posted one in the Canon section here.

This is a new driver. Please provide feedback.

[Edit] Drive deleted - no feedback provided.

hi rcrsn51,

just installed Slacko 5.3.7.1 (5.4 beta 4). Try to install my new HP Photomart 6510, and it is not listed in CUPS 1.4.8 (supplied with Slacko 5.4).
Have not been able to find a PPD file for it, and the hplib that contains a driver for this printer has no Slackware version (but has Debian and Ubuntu).

How can I proceed ?

It is a network printer (via WIFI) and it is detected by CUPS 1.4.8.

Regards,

Harm

The hplip_print-3.12.10a.pet posted on Page 1 of this thread supports your Photosmart 6510. Have you tried it yet?

Have not been able to find a PPD file for it

A PPD file by itself is almost never sufficient to install a printer.

Dear rcrsn51,

Thanks for the tip. Didn't read the first post carefully enough. Installed the PET, and now I can print. Thanks......

regards,

Volhout

Hello,
I'm new to Puppy, Installed yesterday my Lexmark S315 on Puppy using the driver you indicated.
(as Lexmark PPD file is not working).

The Wifi printer was indeed detected with no pbs.

sending the test page to Printer prints only one page with odd caracters on top --> Driver obviously not propre for my printer.

Do you have any ideas of alternative drivers I could use?
is Puppy a debian based linux or redhat?

Thx a lot and sorry in advance for the hassle.

Cheers from Paris France

François

f_esson wrote:Installed yesterday my Lexmark S315 on Puppy using the driver you indicated.

Sorry. There was a report here of a Lexmark S301 working. But the Lexmark drivers are so complicated that they are impossible to trouble-shoot in Puppy unless I have the actual printer.

[Edit] This printer claims to be Postscript compatible. I have attached a generic PPD file that worked for another user. This is for a Lexmark X463de.

If you have already installed your S315, delete it. (In CUPS, select the printer and pull down its Admin list.)

Then let CUPS re-detect the printer but use the X463de model instead.

[Edit] This Postscript PPD was confirmed to work with a Lexmark S315. It may work with other S Series models. If you try it, please report your success or failure.

Hello, sorry for the late answer.
Could you post the generic working ppd please?
Thx in advance

François

rcrsn51 wrote:

f_esson wrote:Installed yesterday my Lexmark S315 on Puppy using the driver you indicated.

Sorry. There was a report here of a Lexmark S301 working. But the Lexmark drivers are so complicated that they are impossible to trouble-shoot in Puppy unless I have the actual printer.

Lexmark has recently quit the ink-jet business. Good thing. I was never a fan of their stuff.

[Edit] This printer claims to be Postscript compatible. I have attached a generic PPD file that worked for another user.

[Edit] No reply - attachment deleted. If another Lexmark owner wants to try this, please post a request.

Done. See the previous page.

Hello again,

Printer driver "Lexmark_X463de_Postscript_PPD-2.0.pet" is working perfectly with my Lexmark S315 on Slacko Puppy V 5.3.3

a warm thank you to John (rcrsn51)

Cheers from Paris

François

@ Rsrcn51
In the Slacko 5.4 thread, you say

01micko wrote:

cups rolled back to 1.4.8 (wary version) with rcrsn51's ghostscript and Slackware's gutenprint-5.2.9,

A few quick print/scan tests all look good.

But my printer Brother HL1430 not print. No errors, lights blink, but no print.

How to setup that printer with the gutenprint driver?

Or should I use the Brother drivers, but then seem to be missing some items/files in the ghostscript package in slacko?

Thanks in advance.

mories wrote:Or should I use the Brother drivers, but then seem to be missing some items/files in the ghostscript package in slacko?

The printing system in Slacko is stable. Using slacko-5.4-firefox-4g, I installed my Brother HL-2070N as a Gutenprint HL-1430. It worked fine.

As a test, please do the following:

1. Boot off your Slacko Live CD. At the short initial pause, type the boot option "puppy pfix=ram".

2. Install your printer using the Gutenprint driver.

3. Using an application like Abiword, print a test page.

I tried to print part of this page but instead of the diagram, printed a black rectangle instead. Other pages too. Any suggestions?

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/k ... directlink

canbyte wrote:I tried to print part of this page but instead of the diagram, printed a black rectangle instead.

This printed OK for me from an old version of Firefox.

Other pages too.

Please be specific. Does your problem only occur when printing out of your web browser? Does it happen with ALL web pages? Just with Picasa?

Here is what I would try: download and save the JPEG. Then print it with Peasyprint.

As usual, it would help if you stated the Puppy version you are using.

[Edit] I installed Slacko 533 and loaded your Picasa page in the default Seamonkey browser. It printed OK.

Trying to connect an HP 1102w as a wireless printer in Slacko 5.4 Have to admit, it's over my head....I've tried all sorts of things and it just doesn't seem to play.

Would appreciate someone helping me limp out oif the forest.

Thanks


Thom

tlchost wrote:I've tried all sorts of things and it just doesn't seem to play.

What have you tried?

rcrsn51 wrote:

tlchost wrote:I've tried all sorts of things and it just doesn't seem to play.

What have you tried?

Slacko does not detect a networked printer

I tried adding a printer using the address of the printer 192.168.1.5 but cups did not have an entry for the 1102w.

That's the closest I got....

Thom

Do you have the printer working in Windows? The P1102w has an interesting dual-mode feature. When you first turn it on, it acts like a CD-ROM drive so you can install the driver software. Then it turns into a regular printer. AFAIK, this can only be done from Windows.

Do you have it working in Slacko as a USB printer? I suspect not, because it doesn't sound like you have installed a Linux driver for it yet.

Have you read the How-To on Page 1? There are several choices listed for HP printers, but your P1102w works with the foo2xxx driver PET. You need to get it working as a USB printer before you can deal with networking.

The new versions of CUPS in Puppies like Slacko are often slow to detect network printers. You may need to run "Find New Printers" several times. But if you know its IP address, you can do it manually with the socket:// protocol.

I own a P1102w and it works fine with foo2xxx in USB mode. But I have never set it up with wireless, so I cannot guarantee how it will work.