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I have an HP F380 AIO printer connected to an XP Pro boxen. I downloaded HP’s HPLIP.run file. Now what?

I’m really trying to learn Linux but I keep running into the printing problem. If I can’t print, I can’t use Linux for my daily OS. Please provide any help that you can.

Thank you in advance.

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instead of downloading, why not use the software that comes with the dvd ? or the repo’s ?most can be found via YaST - software management. Makes things a bit easier for newcomers. If you must use the software you downloaded, open a console,su to root & then type " sh name_of_file.run " then press enter.See what happens ( remove quotation marks & replace with proper file name )

Andy

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Thanks. I’ve just tried YaST but no luck. I’m just not sure what I’m doing. CUPS, SMB, LPD?

I know that my printer is //MSHOME/GAMER/HPDeskjet or //192.168.1.5/HPDeskjet

I’m not sure what to do with that information.

By the way, YaST did download the lastest list of drivers from the web. My specific driver is not there but I tried the generic “Deskjet” driver. I have the Deskjet F380 AIO.

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Hi
For HP printers/scanners I’ve normally installed hplip via YaST or
zypper and then as root user run hp-setup. Then use hp-toolbox to
control, never used YaST.

HP Linux Imaging
and Printing

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Hi, I usually use the cups webinterface to setup a printer. In a webbrowser just enter “localhost:631” and you’ll be there. In the “Add printer” menu you could choose printing via ipp or samba. In the first case the path to your printer will be something like “ipp://192.168.1.5/HPDeskjet”. In the samba case - I don’t know.

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I got the HPLIP auto installer to run. That did allow me to attempt several methods of installing but I ran into bad luck. It seems that my Suse rig can not browse the windows network. Where do I start to resolve that.

Note: All windows machines can browse and I turned off the firewall for the printer server XP box.

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On Tue October 14 2008 09:26 pm, don256us wrote:

>
> I got the HPLIP auto installer to run. That did allow me to attempt
> several methods of installing but I ran into bad luck. It seems that my
> Suse rig can not browse the windows network. Where do I start to
> resolve that.
>
> Note: All windows machines can browse and I turned off the firewall
> for the printer server XP box.
>
>
don256us;
You need to configure Samba, see: http://www.swerdna.net.au/linux.html for a
good Suse HowTo.

P. V.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.

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In openSUSE11.0 you’ll have to edit your firewall settings in order to be able to browse your windows network. If you want to access shares you don’t need to configure your samba server but your firewall. In the firewall settings of Yast go to Broadcast, click the add button and enable samba browsing in the external zone. In the network field you’ve to type something like 192.168.1.0/24 depending on your subnet. And you might want to edit your workgroup in Yast → Network Settings → Windows Domain something… You’ll find anything you want to know about samba on swerdnas website (post 7).

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Just for the record, I had a problem with the printer driver package installed by Yast. It was able to find the network printer (an older HP 3500), but I couldn’t print properly. I finally deleted the installed driver package and manually installed the hplib myself. That fixed the problem.

I also have the same problem mentioned by others here – for some reason, Yast refuses to set the default printer correctly. I have selected the HP 3500, and it shows as selected in both Yast and Cups, but when I print, the Dot Matrix printer is always the default selection. If I forget to change it to the 3500, I ruin a couple of expensive multi-part forms.

Ah. Life is good. :wink:

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Hi
So if you run hp-toolbox, do both printers appear, if so is the HP set
as the default?

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openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 9:28, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.06
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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Hi
So if you run hp-toolbox, do both printers appear, if so is the HP set as the default?

Apparently, that wasn’t properly set up by Yast’s software manager. hp-toolbox says that hp-systray isn’t running; when I try to start that, hp-systray says, “No hp: or hpfax: devices found in any installed CUPS queue. Exiting.”

The printer is working just fine; I have to manually select it each time I want to use it, but it’s there and it’s printing.

I guess that’s why Yast installs that other printer driver package by default, even though it doesn’t have most older HP printers in the selection list? :\