Comment 2 for bug 20330

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Richard Kleeman (kleeman) wrote :

More details on the problem:

If I run hp-probe it finds the usb (local) printer. If I then restart cupsys,
the gnome printool is able to see this local
printer and if I install this using the correct driver then hplip can see this
printer and sees some stuff like inklevels.
Even this isn't working properly however because it fails to detect the photo
cartridge and in addition when a
testpage is sent to the printer it fails to print. The first issue seems likely
an upstream problem while the second I am not so sure...

I also tried hp-makeuri with my network printer ip address. This produces an
hp:// address but there appears no way to use this address.
The hp website suggests using the cups admin tool (127.0.0.1:631) but this is
disabled in Ubuntu for security reasons. I see no way within
the gnome printool of installing an hp addressed printer (hp://******) so cannot
see the network printer. This particular problem is not an upstream issue in my
view since the advice on the hp site does not work for Ubuntu.