HP LaserJet 1000

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 19.02.2004 schrieb Mario St-Gelais um 20:23:
> I started not so long ago with Linux.  Initially, I installed SUSE Linux 
> and with some pain was able to install my HP printer.
> 
> Then I switched to Fedora and I haven't been able to make that damn 
> printer puke some printed stuff.  I followed all instructions as per 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ without success.  When I do "cat 
> sihp1000.img > /dev/usb/lp0" the printer burps out some noise indicating 
> I guess that the driver is being loaded buy yet it won't print.  Looking 
> at log files I get all kind of messages according to flavor of the day I 
> guess : "paper tray empty" or "printer faults".  But I damn know it is 
> not empty.
> 
> What am I gonna do switch back to SUSE??
> 
> Suggestions??

The HP LaserJet 1000 is a so called "Windows printer" - it is a GDI
model. That is the reason why
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1000
tells you how to load the firmware out of the Windows driver. But as
said on the page to, it is a "works mostly" workaround.

You then have to configure cups to use the driver. Instructions are to
be found from the site mentioned above.

Alexander


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