[ale] Printer problems

[Scott Castaline]

best bet is to download latest hplip and install. Someone has made a run
file to install it, I don't remember where it is but I think there was a
link at the site for hplip. It made life so much easier. It
automatically launches the setup script after installing.

On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 18:44 -0500, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> It is a USB printer.
> 
> It is HP officejet 4215.
> 
> To get the scanner working, thought of reinstalling the hplip package.
> By mistake I removed it fully and reinstalled it.
> 
> It messed up things now-  I cant find HP officejet 4200 series among
> the list of printers when I try adding my printer through System
> Settings --> Printers ---> Add ---> Printers
> 
> I am out of ideas now
> 
> Scott Castaline wrote: 
> > networked or direct connected (parallel or USB) all-in-one unit?
> > 
> > On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 16:52 -0500, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> >   
> > > My case was a bit different  - I didn't use automatix..........
> > > But something definitely uninstalled my cupsys and it didn't touch the
> > > hp drivers
> > > Also I am still struggling to get the scanner portion working - am
> > > getting a I/O error
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Christopher Fowler wrote: 
> > >     
> > > > On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:52 -0500, Vikram Nanda wrote:
> > > >   
> > > >       
> > > > > Got it working-  looks like cupsys got uninstalled during one of the
> > > > > updates. I reinstalled it and my printer is working.
> > > > >     
> > > > >         
> > > > That needs to be answered.  Why would it be uninstalled?  I had a
> > > > similar problem with automatix2.  I ran it and picked many items.  One
> > > > was mplayer.  After mplayer was installed I watched a video.  In the
> > > > back ground automatix2 was still working.  Minutes later I ran mplayer
> > > > again and it was no where to be found.  Some program install in
> > > > automatix2 required that mplayer not be installed and when it got to
> > > > that packet it removed it.  I'm not totally sure why it did that but
> > > > from that moment on I have not selected many items in automatix2.  I
> > > > select a few run it and then repeat until I'm done.
> > > > 
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