OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Hardware

HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver

<< < (2/2)

Pete:
Hi klipp

Might be easier to "walk" you through creating a printer as it seems something went wrong on your previous attempt(s).

With CUPS Daemon running and Printer powered on:-

1] Start Computer -> Printers -> Install Printer

2] Select Install a local or network printer (CUPS-based) and click Next

3] The "Create CUPS Printer" window should appear, select HP then select Deskjet 3630 Series hpijs and click Next

4] The printer should then be detected and displayed, make sure it is selected and click Next

5] Complete Printer Name and Location then click Next

6] The "Confirm Create Printer" window appears, Make sure Create Pinter is checked then click Create

7] Close the Create Printer dialog


You should end up with a printer with the correct driver for the Deskjet 3630 Series in the Printers folder

A simple test: open a browser and load http://localhost:631/printers then click on your printers name. The next page has a dropdown box called Maintenance, select Print Test Page from that dropdown list.

Let us know if the above worked for you.


Pete



R.M. Klippstein:
Hey Pete! Still on printing but at least  we know whats going on now. All print jobs are being witheld  apparantly because there is no color manager! I took this printer off my server where it worked fine but never used color. I put a new color cartridge in but still dott work, Color Doesnt work, I never used color on my server -- uugggghh! So I;ll put it back on my server and get a new non-HPPrinter. What are you using for printing? I;;ve had it with HP Printers. seems non  of them feed paper properly.
   That website you suggestd for testing a installition is really neet . Thanks for suggesting it, It
pointd out the problem!. I don;t know what to buy as a replacment for OS2 printer, any ideas?
Appologies and thanks for your help, turns out as usual "self inflicted disaster"

klipp

Klafi:
Good day Klipp,

With my printer – Brother MFC-9970CDW – I had to activate lprportd in the TCP/IP settings.

I used a printer driver from a Linux package and integrated it into the system via CUPS.
Without lprportd, the printer showed no interest at all.
Now it prints beautifully – in both colors and shapes!

Many thanks to everyone.
Wishing you all the best and much success!

ivan:
Might I propose a Brother printer that uses the BRScript postscript  - You can then use Alex Taylor's PSprint driver which saves messing about with cups.  Both my Brother printers (DCP-9020cdw and HL-3170cdw are quite happy with it on my network using the internal BR-Script interface.

Pete:
Hi klipp

I'm using a HP Envy Photo 6234 which works very well for printing with cups/hplip and scanning with sane/hpaio.

I think the message you get about no color manager could be a "red herring". I seem to recall a similar problem years ago with a Canon printer but cannot remember the exact fix, very possibly there was something missing in the cups setup at that time.

I suggest that you get a cups debug log and post it here and, hopefully, with a few people looking through it the problem may get spotted.


Did you try creating a printer following instructions in my previous post? - might be worth a try.


Regards

Pete

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page

Go to full version