Hello
I have two usb printers: HP PSC 1200 series and a Brother HL 2040 laser printer. I have installed the printers using the correct drivers and everything appears to install as it should. However, I cannot print. The test page won't print nor will they print from Abiword. The printers show up via lsusb and, of course, in the printer setup dialog. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I was just about to post a"gloating" message about getting antiX to print via ipp (wireless connection) to my wife's HP K-60 printer. And off-network at that, since I get a generic IP address through my wireless and the wife's system is on an ISP-provided IP.

For what it is worth (and in case it helps), the first printer installation did NOT work -- the test print gave errors at the wife's CUPS server. I installed (Synaptic) the foomatic database and then, as a backup, the actual PPD file needed. Reinstalled printer and it worked great.

One more thought. Rather than using the antiX gnome printer install program, I went right into CUPS (localhost:631 in IceWeasel) on the second attempt. I suspect that going in thru IceWeasel gets at least partial credit in making the printer work.

I will admit it: I'd grown dependent on the KDE printer interface! Nice to install one without having my hand held by KDE.

You're right, dieselbenz, kde will spoil you. I've tried this thing six ways from Sunday and still the same result. I've installed from AntiX and through CUPS with no difference. HP-Toolbox appears to install the PSC 1200 as well but, as before, it just won't print. CUPS does return a foomatic-rip error but I have no idea what that means and can't seem to find anything about it on Google that I understand. I ran the betas on a laptop which picked up the printers via samba. However, I did not try to install a printer directly on that computer. This is my first attempt at installing a printer on a hard-install. It isn't going too well thus far. Thanks for the come-back and feel free to post whatever thoughts come to mind (about the printer install, that is). Thanks.

I never could get a test page to print from the printer"print test page" in antiX rc1. I could print from an application (Abiword) though. I needed use synaptic to install hplip plus it's dependencies first though. I haven't installed final yet; I'm hoping to later this week.
Well, I missed that you had HP Toolbox installed; you probably already have everything else then.

mariel77 wrote:I needed use synaptic to install hplip plus it's dependencies first though.

Thanks for your input, mariel77. I tried to download / install the latest hplip package from sourceforge.net but ran into dependency problems (a lot of them). Among the dependencies was a pdf interpreter and ghostscript / postscript reader. So, I installed acroread and gs-gpl from synaptic. Not sure why but it worked -- both printers. I had also gone into synaptic and installed nearly everything that had to do with foomatic.

I would like to retrace my steps here for the benefit of others who might run into a similar problem. The problem with that, however, is that I did so many things, a lot of them just on a whim, that I cannot piece it all together in anything that even vaguely resembles cohesiveness.

So, dieselbenz and mariel77, thank you for your help & insight(s).

I think the key app(s) were the foomatic ones.

Glad your printers are working kernel.

anticapitalista wrote:Glad your printers are working kernel.

Thanks.....So am I. I really like and appreciate AntiX M7. Thanks for all your work.

Kernel, thanks for doing the printer install before I got to it then. __{{emoticon}}__

And anti, thanks for the foomatic tip. I had installed them in rc1, but I installed everything printer-related that I had in Mepis, and I didn't plan to do it in final. Knowing I need the foomatic packages just saved me a lot of time.

I'm looking forward to final! Thanks!

meriel77
Hope it all goes well for you. And, if you don't mind, post back here and let us know how it goes when you do your printer install. Thanks.

Same problem here. I ended up configuring it through localhost:631(cups) to get it to work. Normal printer set up would not work. This was not an issue with previous releases. As long as it works.

eriefisher