Comment 3 for bug 773374

I am having this problem both with my HP 8500 A910 and my HP 8500 A909a printers.

Firstly, The hpijs driver does not work at all for printing in OpenSUSE 12.1 with CUPS (version 1.5.0) or hplip (3.11.10). You get the following errors in /var/log/cups/error_log with the hpijs driver:

[Job 118] prnt/hpijs/hpijs.cpp 638: unable to open PrintContext object err=2
[Job 118] GPL Ghostscript 9.00: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"
[Job 118] **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
[Job 118] renderer exited with status 1
[Job 118] Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.kid3 exited with status 3
[Job 118] Process is dying with "Error closing renderer

As an FYI, my work-around solution for this problem was to use the hpcups driver for printing. However, then I found a problem with the hpcups driver. That is, the hpcups driver will not print some images such as FedEx or UPS barcodes. So, I solved all this by setting up the printer configuration directly from the CUPS interface at http://localhost:631/printers with a socket driver. I setup the printer's network address as: socket://<Printer IP
Address>:9100. This is my driver for printing since it will print everything including barcode images, however, it will not work for xsane scanning. So, I then setup another printer configuration for scanning using the hpcups driver. While this is quite a kluge of a solution it does work to get my system printing and scanning. That is, I have one printer config for printing and another printer config for scanning.