printer configuration

[mjsmithz]

I have a HP K60 am running cups setup seemed to be going fine it is supported during instalation it detected my printer as /dev/usb/lp0
however when i try to print a test page it says
"unable to open USB port device file "/dev/usb/lp0": no such device"
Device URI usb:/dev/usb/lp0


any suggestions

[TonyH]

Not familiar with HP printers, do you have a printer driver
for your printer from HP (check the website) or is one already
available for it . Which linux distro u using?
I have a lexmark USB printer that had some file dependencies
-look for a readme file in ur printer driver to see.
Tony

[mjsmithz]

Originally posted by TonyH
Not familiar with HP printers, do you have a printer driver
for your printer from HP (check the website) or is one already
available for it . Which linux distro u using?
I have a lexmark USB printer that had some file dependencies
-look for a readme file in ur printer driver to see.
Tony

when i was adding it it had me select a driver for it and i went through the menus found HP->K60 and then it listed the driver i selected it assume it either had it or would download and install it at the point i dunno maybe i do have to download it
i am using redhat 8.0

[mjsmithz]

update: not getting the cant open device doesnt exsist" message anymore however its been processing the print test page i sent like 6 hours ago
so the signal isnt getting to the printer and yes it is plugged in and it is on the signal is still going through when i am in windoze but not working on redhat using cups or lprng =(

[linuxmetal]

what distor u using i finally did get my printer working ...

[st0rmrd]

there's a package called cups-drivers...

I chose Hewlett Packard Generic (Postscript Level 1) for my HP 920c, but maybe there's a better one for your printer.

you should check that you have this package installed. also, some updates to the cups have caused this error at some point to me (using SuSE 7.3) although I had no problem with the rest of my updates...

if you have the drivers installed, or installing it doesn't fix this, try reinstalling cups. and make sure you remove lprng because these two conflict.

[mjsmithz]

Originally posted by linuxmetal
what distor u using i finally did get my printer working ...

red hat 8.0

[mjsmithz]

please

[st0rmrd]

did you install cups-drivers (RPM)?
did you configure it to use the right driver?
did you try reinstalling the original redhad 8.0 cups packages (all of them)?
have you made sure you are not using both cups and lprng which reportedly conflict?