How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Puppy

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ThoriumBlvd
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Slacko-5.5XL OK

#226 Post by ThoriumBlvd »

EDITED: Deleted the old printer/driver set up first.

When I select "ADD PRINTER" the following list appears

HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w (HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w) [Use this one]

HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w USB 00000000xxxxxxxxxxxx HPLIP (HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w)

SCSI Printer

pdf writer (PDF)

Following instructions, I did not pick any printer or driver with "HPLIP" in the name. I scrolled far down the driver list and found the foo2 version. I selected that one and it does print the test page. (Default is Medium 3 darkness)

EDIT#2: What messed me up here was the first printer driver on the list exactly matched the selected Printer name (no HPLIP). I did not think I was using HPLIP. As referenced, I had to scroll way down the list to find the correct version.

I tried printing from LibreOffice4 and report that it works well even when there is some color in the orig. document.

PDF is next...works fine.

Webpage printing through FF23 works fine
http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KMMK.html
3 pages, good formatting good B/W copy

Thanks for this.
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#227 Post by zandarian »

Solution for Slacko 5.7. and HP PSC 1310 with error "usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip-hplip failed": http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 431#794431

yr1945
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Cannot scan

#228 Post by yr1945 »

Cannot scan
HP Deskjet 3510 all-in-one printer
Toshiba laptop A35-S4527
Installed the following:
printer-scanner-001.sfs
printer-scanner-drivers.sfs
hplip_print-3.13.7.pet
hplip_scan-3.13.7.pet
cups-1.3.11-i486.pet

This is my main OS... Tman's warytiny... somehow just corrupted my year old savefile... no backup... recovering and, once again, I can print, but not scan...

See attachments...

Thank you for your help...
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Re: Cannot scan

#229 Post by rcrsn51 »

yr1945 wrote:Installed the following:
printer-scanner-001.sfs
printer-scanner-drivers.sfs
I have no idea what those packages are or what they have to do with TinyWary. This looks like another example of a puplet builder who stripped out a bunch of stuff without thinking about the consequences.

However, you appear to be connecting to a networked unit. Is there any chance that its IP address is no longer 192.168.1.104?

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#230 Post by yr1945 »

I checked the IP address... it is correct.

Again, I can print (wireless)... just cannot scan. Before my savefile crashed... I could print and scan. However, it was set up over a year ago and I don't remember the details.

Yes, warytiny is stripped...

I will keep working on it until I can scan...

Anyway, thank you for taking a look at it...

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#231 Post by rcrsn51 »

Connect the printer directly by USB and run

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sane-find-scanner
scanimage -L

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#232 Post by yr1945 »

per your request to connect the
printer directly by USB and run Code:
sane-find-scanner
scanimage -L


see attachment for results...
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#233 Post by rcrsn51 »

# No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup
# the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details.
Get libusb_5xx-1.0.pet.

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#234 Post by yr1945 »

Installed libusb_5xx-1.0.pet...

Re-ran Code:
sane-find-scanner
scanimage -L


see attachment for results...
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#235 Post by yr1945 »

rcrsn51...

FYI, I loaded Saluki023 and Precise571. I used my same process and was successful at getting the scanner to work.

However, using my same process, I was not able to get the scanner working with Fluppy013. Anyway, I could not get the printer-scanner-drivers.sfs to load. I believe Fluppy013 is based on Wary, too?

Also, on warytiny,I checked all pets that I loaded for their respective dependencies... hplip_scan-3.13.7.pet required dbus-glib... I installed it, but the scanner still would not work...

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#236 Post by rcrsn51 »

I installed WaryTIny, Peasyscan, the lastest hplip_scan and libusb-1.0. Scanning worked OOTB with my HP Deskjet. I did not need those SFS packages which I suspect you got from the abandoned Saluki project.

If you want a light-weight Puppy, just get Wary 55.

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#237 Post by yr1945 »

rcrsn51...

You won't believe this, but this morning when I booted up my laptop, I tried to scan a document and the scanner worked just fine.

See attached screenshot. I'm back in business. The next thing I will do is backup my newly created warytiny savefile. I've used warytiny for a long, long time. I want to stay with it. It is small, fast and usually very stable.

You are right about the printer-scanner.sfs. I believe it loads an older version of peasyscan and sane scan. I will delete it from my install process. I could be wrong, but the printer-scanner-drivers.sfs may help me find my specific HP 3510 Deskjet printer. I will double check this before I delete this particular sfs file.

Thank you!!! I really appreciate your knowledge and your willingness to support us.
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#238 Post by rcrsn51 »

In my test with WaryTiny, I could not get a printer installed in CUPS. So you may still need the cups-1.3.11-i486.pet. I don't know if this is because CUPS was broken in the original Wary 511 or because Tman took something out.

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#239 Post by yr1945 »

Yes, I did install cups-1.3.11-i486.pet... It's now part of my new process.

Again, Thank you...

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Canon MG5300 Series printer & canon_mg5300-3.60.pet

#240 Post by Beagleburt »

I am using Lupu 5.2.8.6 on a Dell Dimension 3000 connected via USB to a Canon PIXMA MG5350. After I installed "canon_mg5300-3.60.pet", CUPS - (Ver.: 1.4.3) - installs it ok using: "Canon-mg5300 Series Ver. 3.60" driver. It will not print from a 'print-ready-version' of an email; also when I try to do a Maintenance "Print Test Page" it STOPS & the job dialogue says: "Empty print file!" Also when I try to do a "Print Self-Test Page", I get:

Print Self-Test Page Canon_MG5300_series Error
Unable to send command to printer driver!
Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-command'!

I have instaled; uninstalled; & re-installed several times but no joy. I also set printer as default server printer but that did not seem to do anything...?
I have unsuccessfully been trying to add the following as an attachment: "http://localhost:631/admin/log/error_log?" but I keep getting:"The Extension is not allowed" ? & when I clicked on "Allowed Extensions & Sizes", I get:

Allowed Extension Groups and their Sizes

Archives -> Maximum Upload Size: 0 Bytes (???!!!)
ace, bz2, gtar, gz, pet, pup, rar, tar, zip

Images -> Maximum Upload Size: 0 Bytes (???!!!)
gif, jpeg, jpg, png, tga, tif, xpm

It is nearly 03:30 am here in New Zealand & I am too tired to work it out...
Thank you in anticipation...
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#241 Post by edoc »

I have tried everything I read here ... or at least I think I did. :oops:

I loaded debbi-1.1.pet

I went to the Brother link
http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux ... #HL-2275DW
& downloaded
LPR driver deb 2.1.0-1 35 KB 2011.Mar.18
cupswrapper driver deb 2.0.4-2 13 KB 2011.Mar.18
I moved them to /root

I ran these two lines in Terminal

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debbi hl2280dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb	

debbi cupswrapperHL2280DW-2.0.4-2.i386.deb
Even after deleting & finding again CUPS shows:
brotherhl-2275dw (Default Printer) "Unable to locate printer 'hostname'!"
Description: Brother HL-2275DW B&W
Location: office
Printer Driver: Brother HL2280DW for CUPS
Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: socket://hostname:9100
I found the old Reset Printer code you gave me for a HP Laserjet P1006 but could not figure out how to adapt it - even if that were to be the solution.

(I also loaded peasyscan but Carolina 1.3 doesn't offer CUPS 1.4 so the current version of peasyscan will not work.)

WDYT, please?
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#242 Post by rcrsn51 »

Brother HL-2275DW on ASUS RT-16W Router
Your first step should always be to connect the printer directly to the Puppy machine by USB. That will confirm that you have a working driver.

Also, please explain this:
socket://hostname:9100
You should be using an actual IP address here.

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#243 Post by edoc »

OK. Just did so - works perfectly.
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#244 Post by rcrsn51 »

When you plug the printer into the router and run CUPS, is it auto-detected? With what connection URI?

Do you have a firewall running on the Puppy machine?

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#245 Post by edoc »

No firewall.

It is not detected - I tried several times as you suggested.

The router shows it as lp0
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