Printer working in Debian
It looks like I’ve finally got my HP Deskjet 959c USB printer working in Debian. After downloading and installing the HPIJS drivers (see hpinkjet.sourceforge.net or www.linuxprinting.org), I should have been able to simply print with lpr or gs…
However, that did not really work.
I’m not sure what went wrong, but I just got my PostScript files as plain text out of the printer.
Then I started looking into the CUPS documentation, and found out about http://localhost:631/. There you can find the easy point-and-click web interface to administering CUPS. After I added my printer there, and printing a test-page, I saw I now could choose my printer in GIMP, whilst before, I could only print to file.
So, I am pretty pleased that I could print a photograph at 600 DPI yesterday, but I think I should be able to do better. Furthermore, I do still have to test if printing from the command line (with lpr and gs) also works.
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