[ale] HP P2035 printer won't on Mandriva 2010.0

[Jim Kinney]

Ah Ha! See here:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_p2035.html

no support parallel interface. Plug in with USB.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you have hplip installed? That's the default driver system for all of
> HP's printer line that works with Linux (nearly ALL of their printers do!).
> That's what CUPS will want to talk to.
>
> Skip the "driver CD" and plug it up and run the cups :631 stuff. Config it
> as a generic hp laserjet to see basic print capabilities. That driver
> _should_ ship with cups. It's very basic but will put ink on a page.
>
> Mandriva has always seemed a bit weird about their packaging to me. If you
> still must have python-devel, try either the rpmbone link from JD or get the
> src.rpm package for python and do a full build yourself. Maybe Mandriva has
> a separate devel repo you need to attach to?
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>wrote:
>
>> My old HP printer had the nerve to die after only 17 years.
>>
>> I'm unable to get my new HP LaserJet P2035 printer (via parallel port)
>> to work on Mandriva 2010.0.  (Btw, avoid this version of Mandriva like
>> the plague!)
>>
>>
>> First, the printer install CD says one must install a driver on Linux
>> but it refuses to install demanding I first install "python-devel".
>> Unfortunately, there is no such RPM found using Mandriva's GUI install
>> tool.  I've installed anything remotely related and still get the error.
>>
>> Also, when I use the browser interface to CUPS (http://localhost:631)
>> and try things such as clicking on maintenance "clean print heads" (just
>> to see if I can talk to the printer), I get an error complaining about
>> can't run "application/vnd.cups" or something very similar.
>>
>> When I first plugged in the printer, on restarting cups each time it
>> would spit out a page that had been queued from when the old printer
>> died.  The printer's self-test buttin spits out its test page.
>>
>>
>> I'm at the end of my rope here and I'm week on multimedia and printing,
>> being a "server guy".
>>
>> Any help gratefully accepted.  I'll even throw in a free sightseeing
>> flight around Atlanta for the first one to solve the problem.
>>
>> If converting the printer connection to USB would help, I can do that.
>>
>> THANKS!
>>
>> Bob Toxen
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