(Ted Harding) wrote:
While we're on printers:
I've got an HP LJ 3550 printer (which I mainly keep for those occasions when I need colour prints, e.g. photos, but also as a readily portable B&W printer when I'm travelling away -- it's a very light and compact piece of kit).
This uses the HP IJS language, which is quite different from the classical HP PCL language (with which I have no problems).
I've been all round the houses, including deep research into www.linux-printing.org, without managing to get it working under Linux. (This involves setting up the 'ijs' driver under ghostscript). The Linux system in question is Red Hat 9.
I amk not sure what you mean by setting up the ijs driver underr Linux but if you meaning compiling ijs support into ghostscript this is not necessary. AFAICS most distros do not use plain ghostscript as it supports relatively few printer drivers. I went down this route trying to get my HP PSC1205 working under Linux and it was unnecssary. You just need the 'right' type of ghostscript which has loads of printer drivers built in including ijs. I did need ojs and the right cups ppd file.
Try downloading/compiling ojs and then as root type ptal-init setup and see if you printer is detected.
HTH
Ian