How to install a HP PSC1215 on MDK 10.0

[sellis]

After searching around (and finding very little about this model of printer/scanner combo) I have had a fun couple of evenings in its company, and thought I would share my experiences with it.

 

First off, I couldn't get HPLIP 0.8.8 to play. After following the (very detailed and rather good) instructions on the HP website http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/, I noticed that the PSC1215 wasn't supported, so selected the next model down, the 1210. This prints fine, but locks up hard on a scan attempt, requiring a power cycle to both the PC and the printer. Ouch.

 

So, I uninstalled HPLIP as it won't play nice with HPOJ, the other, older sibling of the HP printer project line.

 

HPOJ 0.91 is mandated for this printer, and luckily this is a RPM package on Mandrake 10.0 install disk 1.

 

However, on following the installation instructions, (at http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/index.shtml), I realise that the printer is not on the list, and in fact nothing remotely like it is on the list either. Using the included diagnostics, I notice that the device identifies itself as a PSC_1200_SERIES rather than as a 1215 or anything more specific.

 

Further investigation suggests that I also need to install HPIJS too. So I download the lates version, 1.7.1, from http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. (If this URL seems familiar, it is. It's the same site as for HPLIP.)

 

After following their instructions and restarting CUPS (as root, type "service cups restart"), the printer driver list was vastly expanded. Included on there was the PSC1200, select that, and voila! Printer test page OK! Quick test printing from Firefox OK!

 

Right, now for the scanner. sane-find-scanner found the scanner, but scanimage --list-devices found nothing. Simple solution - in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf had the hpoj detection commented out (i.e. its line was #hpoj). Remove the #, and run xsane, and everything is lovely.

 

So, to recap, it seems you need to:

 

- install and configure hpoj 0.91

- install hpijs 1.71

- restart cups

- uncomment or add the "hpoj" line in the scanner configuration file

 

Hope that this helps someone out there.

 

[moved from Hardware by spinynorman]