[ale] CUPS, SuSE 8.0, and HP Officejet solution

[Dow Hurst]

I found that downloading and installing the latest hpoj tarball allowed 
me the use all the features of the printer and to integrate with the 
default SuSE 8.0 CUPs installation seamlessly.  I acquired a HP 
Officejet D125 scanner/printer/copier with USB.  I wanted to use it 
under SuSE 8.0.

Here was my procedure:

Downloaded and installed the latest HP drivers off Sourceforge
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net

Stopped CUPS
/etc/init.d/cups stop

Plugged in the USB printer connection

Ran the HP driver software
ptal-init setup

Started CUPS

Configured CUPS to use the HP 990 Deskjet driver for the Officejet 
printer.  (This is recommended in the docs on the website)

So far the duplex printing, colors, and resolution are working just 
perfectly.  I believe the version 0.8 of the "hpoj" driver package, 
which comes with SuSE 8.0 would have worked okay.  However, I wanted all 
the features of the printer so used hpoj 0.90.  The key here is setting 
up SuSE 8.0 to start ptal-init in the startup scripts before CUPS starts 
or CUPS will not see the printer properly.
Dow

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