On 2009-10-18, Chris P. Bacon <bcjtown.RemoveThis@nunovyerflickingbiz.INVALID.intentionally_com> attempted to be clever by saying:
> I just bought a very nice little HP OfficeJet 6500 E709n printer which I have
> added to my network as a wireless device. All of my machines will print to it
> fine, except for my Debian Lenny box. I ran hp-setup as per the instructions I
> found by googling and used a temporary USB connection to the printer to set it up..
> it seemed to go fine. But now I have tried to add a printer via System->Administration->Printing
>
> New Printer
> It sees my printer under the Devices list and shows the correct IP address and port
> in the "Location of the network printer" panel.
>
> I click "Forward"
> Select printer from database
> Select the Officejet 6500 e709n hpijs from the list
> I click "Forward"
> Fill in the blanks and hit Apply
> Now it says:
>
> Missing driver
>
> Printer 'printer' requires the 'foomatic-rip-hplip' program but it is not currently
> installed. Please install it before using this printer.
>
> But I ran hp-setup so according to what I read, this missing program is already there
> with the name "foomatic-rip". How can I make this work?
>
> Thanks
>
Sorted out... installed
hoih
hpijs
then ran /etc/init.d/hpoj setup
When I added the printer this time it saw it and added it no problems.
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