HP 1200 Printer

The HP 1200 printer is a donation from Edward. It is currently attached to the PandaBoard.

Setup

Setup the printer

$ sudo hp-setup -i

  0*        usb         Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Enter number 0...2 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 0

Found PPD file: hplip:0/ppd/hplip/HP/hp-laserjet_1200-ps.ppd

Setup samba

$ sudo apt-get install samba

$ sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

$ sudo restart smbd; sudo restart nmbd

Get the Windows drivers

$ sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev
$ wget http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/windows/cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.gz
$ sudo make install
$ <scp ps* driver files from a Windows machine>
$ ls -al /usr/share/cups/drivers
total 2572
drwxrwxr-x  2 root       lpadmin       4096 2011-11-05 17:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root       root          4096 2011-11-05 16:38 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root           803 2011-11-05 16:38 cups6.inf
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root            72 2011-11-05 16:38 cups6.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root         12568 2011-11-05 16:38 cupsps6.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root         13672 2011-11-05 16:38 cupsui6.dll
-rw-rw-r--  1 xinchejian xinchejian  847872 2011-11-05 16:48 ps5ui.dll
-rw-rw-r--  1 xinchejian xinchejian  630272 2011-11-05 16:48 pscript5.dll
-rw-rw-r--  1 xinchejian xinchejian   26038 2011-11-05 16:48 pscript.hlp
-rw-rw-r--  1 xinchejian xinchejian 1062732 2011-11-05 16:48 pscript.ntf

Create root user and export the drivers

$ sudo smbpasswd -a root
$ sudo  cupsaddsmb -H localhost -U root -a -v

References

• Printer: http://192.168.1.48:631/printers/HP-LaserJet-1200
• CUPS: http://192.168.1.48:631
• http://blog.encomiabile.it/2010/02/17/samba-cups-and-windows-32-64-bit-drivers/

References

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingWithUbuntu