How to use HP PSC 1200 All-In-One printer? (Solved)
Posted: Fri 29 Mar 2013, 03:13
I am using Puppy Linux Slacko 5.5. I have read everything I could, and I am still mystified as to what to do. Here is what I've already done:
1. Searched for, but cannot find my printer disk, which somewhere, but where?
2. Read all the CUPS documents I could.
3. Read all the HP documents I could.
4. Determined that at some recent year after I bought my printer (a long time ago), HP has consolidated ALL printer support into a module called "HPLips"
5. Verified that HPLips does support my printer, HP PSC 1210 All-In-One, although it says support is 'partial'. Since the printer is also a copier and a scanner, I am guessing that support for one or both of those functions is missing.
6. Learned how to invoke CUPS.
7. Tried to add a printer.
8. Scrolled through the printers offered by CUPS, but HP PSC 1210 is missing, In fact ALL models of the HP PSC 1200, the ENTIRE family, are missing from the selectable list of printers offered by CUPS.
Now, if I call HP, they have done their job -- 1210 support is in HPLips. But if I consider CUPS, where is it? CUPS says it uses HPLips for HP printers. I have not installed a new CUPS, but used what is there. Would I need to do so? How? I am not sure how to proceed with downloading and installing a new HPLips, but would that do the job? Because of the separation between printing, copying, and scanning, it is quite possible that telling CUPS that I have another HP printer will work, but if so, which one? This forum is full of talk about the HP 1200 family of printers, so apparently many of you are really successful with it.
HELP, Please!
Thanks much for any inkling of how to proceed.
1. Searched for, but cannot find my printer disk, which somewhere, but where?
2. Read all the CUPS documents I could.
3. Read all the HP documents I could.
4. Determined that at some recent year after I bought my printer (a long time ago), HP has consolidated ALL printer support into a module called "HPLips"
5. Verified that HPLips does support my printer, HP PSC 1210 All-In-One, although it says support is 'partial'. Since the printer is also a copier and a scanner, I am guessing that support for one or both of those functions is missing.
6. Learned how to invoke CUPS.
7. Tried to add a printer.
8. Scrolled through the printers offered by CUPS, but HP PSC 1210 is missing, In fact ALL models of the HP PSC 1200, the ENTIRE family, are missing from the selectable list of printers offered by CUPS.
Now, if I call HP, they have done their job -- 1210 support is in HPLips. But if I consider CUPS, where is it? CUPS says it uses HPLips for HP printers. I have not installed a new CUPS, but used what is there. Would I need to do so? How? I am not sure how to proceed with downloading and installing a new HPLips, but would that do the job? Because of the separation between printing, copying, and scanning, it is quite possible that telling CUPS that I have another HP printer will work, but if so, which one? This forum is full of talk about the HP 1200 family of printers, so apparently many of you are really successful with it.
HELP, Please!
Thanks much for any inkling of how to proceed.