Topic: Why can't I get my HP OfficeJet K80 to work?

[WEBlance]

Hi,

I'm still at little green on this field. My problem is that I can't get my HP OfficeJet K80 to work on the SME 6.01. I use CUPS and the error message is "Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": No such device".
It always works when I connect/install the printer on the lpt-port but I can't get it to work on the USB port.

Please help anyone!

/Carl

[smeghead]

check out:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_K80

[Robert]

I've made a build of hpoj and a very simple e-smith-hpoj package. I can't test the packages myself for lack of a suitable printer. If anyone is interested in testing this, please contact me by email. My email address is in the e-smith-cups howtos or can be gotten with 'rpm -qi e-smith-cups' if you have that package installed.

[WEBlance]

Ok! I've solved the problem by installing a second parallel port in the server and dropped the usb connection!

[Robert]

Yes, that would work too. But with hpoj it shouldn't be too difficult to get your printer to work with USB. Anyway, if anyone has a need for an hpoj package, just mail me.