There’s something wrong with your hplip setp then. I got this on sled11 after compling and installing the latest hplip version.
I’d suggest to uninstall/delete your present hplip files in yast2>software and after a reboot for good measure, reinstalling the original opensuse 11.x drivers from the dvd.
Once setup hplip works great and will give you all kinds of info about the printer like pages printed, toner use, etc. After setup, it gives and icon on the taskbar that gives all the settings and control functions you want.
Once setup in hplip, you can then go to yast2>hardware>printer and fine tune any settings if wanted (my bus inkjet has extra RAM and the setup doesn’t recognize this. Yast lets me set the ram, etc.)
To modify cups, open a browser and type http://localhost:631 to bring up the cups admin.
I deleted hplip in YaST. Also deleted the printer. Disabled oss and packman repositories and then installed hplip from the SuSE 11.0 disk as you suggested. (At least I think the installation of hplip was from the disk.)
Then I re-enabled the oss and packman repositories and updated hplip and hpijs. Reinstalled the printer (HP 1320n Laser Jet).
Now I have hplip v 3.9.6b installed. But…
How do setup hplip? Typing that into the console gets “command not found.”
How do I get this icon you describe with all the places for configuration? I don’t see it on my taskbar.
socref, sorry if I went to fast, this is what I did this morning:
yast, printer, deleted my printer
yast, software, updated hplip from packman repo
rebooted, I know its a bad habbit and not needed but I like a fresh start
after reboot there was no HP icon in the system tray as I had no printer installed yet
kde menu, system, configuration, hp device manager. If you dont have it there try running “hp-toolbox” from the command line.
hp device manager will pop up with a message saying that no printers where found and it will offer you 3 suggestion, go for the 1st one which is something along the lines of “either run the setup program of click the button below”, click the button below
follow the setup till its finished, just selecting what you normaly would, when asked for login and password (so it can setup cups stuff) enter root and you root password.
hp device manager will now be in your system tray (blue circle, white HP letters), double click it to open it
it will have several tabs at the top, one is called “print settings”
“print settings” will have several sub-menu’s, open the one called “general”
in general scroll down a bit (or simply make hp device manager full screen) and you will see Print Quality, mine was normal, changed it to Draft and of course the correct paper size (media size as it’s called and also in the general section)
that is what I had to do to get it working as with the previous version. did not need cups or yast to install the printer.
Ah! I finally found hp-toolbox in the KDE menu. It was not under system/configuration/HP device manager but, rather under system/monitor/HP device manager.
socref
Once hplip is installed, open a terminal window and run as root (su): hp-setup.
This will give you he hplip setup screen and allow you to set up hp printers.
Once setup, the next time you reboot, you will find the hp icon in the taskbar. Right click for the options.
socref
Not a problem, enjoy. I only found out how to use it by reading between the lines on other posts.
I must say that hp support have done a great job with linux support and hplip the best way to control an hp printer in linux.
Some hp models give problems in some windows versions, but the linux support is great and works well.
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>Sagemta, thanks for the reply. I have already been to that HP site.
>Unless I missed something there I could not find the driver I need. Did
>you see it there?
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>Can anyone point me to the specific driver I cited or to any other
>driver that will give me 300 (draft) dpi resolution using the HP1320n
>laser printer?
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>Thanks.
>socref
Call me a little bit confused. I know the old reasons for draft
output, faster printing, lower consumables use, and similar. What i
wish to know is why you are asking for 300 dpi draft output from that
particular printer, IOW what is it getting you?
Simple … lower toner consumption. The standard drivers for the 1320n have only 600 and 1200 dpi settings, and neither of those are draft quality. The Foomatic driver I was using before the update gave me the option of 300, 600, and 1200 dpi.
I do a lot of printing of long documents that require multiple reviews and revisions before producing a final (high quality) version. Since I am the only one who sees the drafts there is no reason to consume unnecessary toner by printing anything other than 300 dpi until the final version.
On the cartridge I just replaced I printed almost 8000 pages.
socref
Thank you for the advice. An hplip upgrade last week (openSUSE 11.1) stopped my LaserJet 1320 from printing. I followed the advice and my printer is now printing again:).
socref
localhost:631 is the browser (firefox address) of the cups server. When you click the link, you should get cups server admin page. If it asks for a login, use root/rootpwd.
When you open localhost:631 go to printers>mofify printer and follow the dialogue throuhg to choosing the driver.
If it’s directly connected you should be fine; if networked, you will need the ip address and use appletalk/jetdirect and:
socket://ipaddress:9100 and then choose the ppd file.
I followed your directions but there is no Foomatic driver for 1320. I see 26 drivers for various Laser Jet 1320 series printers, but not one of them is the Foomatic driver I had before the SuSE update last week.
What version of cups do you have installed? (I am writing from a sled box and don’t have access to my opensuse box at the moment.)
In cups printer setup, right after choosing the printer manufacturer, you get the model/driver for the printer.
On SLED 11 cups, I get 5 foomatic drivers.
Is your 1320 networked via a jetdirect card or is it usb/parallel? All my printers are jetdirect so I don’t know if cups printer setup is that much different for local/network printers.
