hplip: 2.8.* versions do not recognize H690C on parport0

[Mark Purcell]

Forwarded: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480671

From: David Baron <[e-mail]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: hplip: 2.8.* versions do not recognize H690C on parport0
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:48:18 +0300

Package: hplip
Version: 2.8.2-1
Severity: important

2.8.* version of hplip fail to recognize an HP690C printer on parport0.
Discussions on the hplip forum made suggestions but failed to solve the
problem. The more recent 2.8.4 version was also tried to no avail.

Someone on Debian's list suggested trying 1.6.* from stable and this worked
just fine.

-- System[A Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rt1-davidb (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups
ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii cupsys 1.3.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hplip-data 2.8.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsys2 1.3.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libsane 1.0.19-6 API library for scanners
ii libsnmp15 5.4.1~dfsg-6 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-8 SSL shared libraries
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-11 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-imaging 1.1.6-2 Python Imaging Library
ii python-support 0.7.7 automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.3.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hpijs 2.8.2+2.8.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii hpijs-ppds 2.8.2+2.8.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii hplip-gui 2.8.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
ii openprinting-ppds 20080211-2 OpenPrinting printer support - Pos

-- no debconf information

[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

The HP DeskJet 690C is considered supported but support is "as-is". Because of the age of parallel devices we are no longer testing or adding new functionality for parallel devices. More information on this device here:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_690.html

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Aaron