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[Chris Dennis <Chris.Dennis AT UAlberta.NET>]

Jonathan Evraire wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>   I'm trying to get my HP LaserJet 1200 on USB to work using cups but
there
> doesn't seem to be any communication getting accross to the printer.  I
know
> older versions of the kernel required a patch to get this particular
printer
> working on USB, but as far as I can tell that's no longer the case in the
2.4.19
> kernel (which I'm using at the moment).  Searching the Net has got me more
> confused than has helped... I think I might need the hpoj spell installed
for it
> to work, but again I'm not sure.
>
>   If anyone has this printer or a similar one working on USB through cups
and is
> willing to help me out a little I would really appreciate it.

If you install hpoj there's a ptal-cups daemon. ptal-init is the startup
script and does not currently work with our new init system. I have an
init.d script that at least loads. I'll enter a bug about it
<http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4447>.

Have a look at the Setting up a print queue (CUPS-specific) section of
<http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/hpoj-0.90/doc/setup-print.html>