[Bug 27239] Re: gnome-cups-manager does not accept HPLIP printer setup

[Henk Koster]

Used live CD 20060414, there is no 20060415. My LAN printer is HP DeskJet 5850 with static IP 192.168.1.63. It is not detected by Gnome Printing Manager (GPM) when checking Detect LAN Printers in the Global Settings. Installing manually in GPM is still not possible, as the option AppSocket/HPJetDirect is not available; in Breezy I was able to circumvent GPM by installing the printer in localhost:631 as AppSocket/HPJetDirect with URI socket://192.168.1.63:9100, then choosing either HP or HPLIP as manufacturer, and DeskJet 5850 among the hpijs drivers. 

In Dapper, only the HPJetDirect option is present, and it is not the same as the AppSocket/HPJetDirect option. 
I have tried as URI all sorts of combinations: the IP with and without socket:// prefix, and with and without :9100 postfix. I've also tried, with the CUPS (IPP) printer option the URI with ipp:// and http:// prefixes and :9100 postfixes. 

Impossible to say if one of these works, because the hpijs drivers are not present in Dapper either; I've used DeskJet series and New DeskJet series.

Anyway, whatever I do, there is no new printer appearing. I've not tried to circumvent GPM (as I did in Breezy), because the way to do that in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf has been made much more difficult and opaque in Dapper... we have regression here, not progress. 
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gnome-cups-manager does not accept HPLIP printer setup
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/27239