[TriLUG] Help setting up HP OfficeJet drivers

Gregory Woodbury ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Tue May 11 07:16:25 EDT 2004


On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:47:55PM -0700, Christopher Blackmon wrote:
> I'm trying to print from my RH9 box to my HP OfficeJet
> 7130 with the hpoj/ij drivers without much success. 
> Any suggestions?  The 7130 is networked via a
> Jetdirect card.
> I can ping the 7130 and print to it from other windows
> boxes, just not from Linux.

With the HPOJ package, you have to hand-run "ptal-init setup" to
initialize the package.  Then you need to delete the "lp0" printer and
configure the hpoj using the "ptal" device.

Basic stuff, but my OJ710 runs fine with it.

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