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Ezprezo

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Registered: 2011-09-10

Posts: 33

HP Deskjet D1660 over network

Hello everyone, I am back again with more troubles I can't seem to solve. This time it is involving my HP D1600 printer, which is connected to a Windows machine at some other location in the house. I'd like to connect this Crunchbang machine to it so I can print things, but I have been having some troubles.. As you can see in the screenshot, I have entered the location, and the path, which from what I can tell is completely correct.

At this point, I've had the ability to make the printer make a sound and move its little ink cartridges when I tried to print something, but beyond that, the actual printing never happens. As you can see, it stays at processing, and never stops.

I have tried installing multiple versions of hplip and none of them have made a difference. In fact, I think installing the latest version of hplip made my ability to at least move the cartridges go away.

Does anyone have the slightest clue what I could do?

EDIT: Here is another shot after I run "hp-setup" and choose network to find the printers. This is the part where the instructions given on the HP website do not follow through with what was supposed to happen.

http://i.imgur.com/C5goC.png

Last edited by Ezprezo (2012-06-26 22:42:36)

Ezprezo

Member

Registered: 2011-09-10

Posts: 33

Re: HP Deskjet D1660 over network

Hope everyone doesn't mind me bumping this just once..

el_koraco

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From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,644

Re: HP Deskjet D1660 over network

How about CUPS through the web interface? First enable a root password:

sudo passwd root

Then enter localhost:631 in your browser address bar. Log in as root with the root password in the dialog. Go fro there, it's pretty self explanatory.

Last edited by el_koraco (2012-06-30 11:55:43)