Printer not working on Lucid 10.4

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 09:45 -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
> On 05/08/2010 07:25 AM, Frans Ketelaars wrote: 
> > On Sat, 08 May 2010 06:52:13 -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > > *I have a HP Deskjet 5550 printer, for which lucid does not see, when I
> > > am trying to set it up...Using a parallel cable for connection when I
> > > use the >system>administration>printing app the server shows new but I
> > > can not add a new printer...
> > > 
> > > I have even downloaded the newest HPLIP driver for this printer but it
> > > still will not let me install it...So has anyone had this problem in
> > > setting up your printer, if so I would like to know how you did it...
> > > 
> > > It has allways worked in every release of ubuntu, but not in
> > > Lucid...Hummm
> > > 
> > > Thanks Larry
> > >     
> > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_5550.html 
> > says your printer should work with Ubuntu 10.04 . You can even get help 
> > from HP directly: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html .
> > 
> > Good luck!
> > 
> >     -Frans
> > 
> > 
> >   
> Hello Frans,
> 
> I have checked the HP website, and followed the instructions,
> downloaded the hplip-3.10.2.run script...Now I have a problem, even
> when I use the option C for custom, it never shows the question to
> enable parallel cable, or pp-build since it is disabled in the
> program...Why they did this is beyond me...
> 
> Just maybe you or someone else might have run into this and have the
> fix as to how to enable for using a parallel cable, instead of the USB
> one...



HPLIP is available in Synaptic. Better use that one, although I do not
know if HPLIP provides parallel cable support. 

Uninstall hplip-3.10.2 that you installed first, and then install HPLIP
in Synaptic.






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