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Configuring your HP PSC 1410v All-In-One in Fedora Core 4

The HP PSC v All-In-One multifunction printer is a great device to have in a dorm. As a Hewlette Packard printing product, it carries behind it quality for the buck, and HP's Sourceforge project for native Linux support through CUPS.

Because of how recent this products release is, it preceeded appropriate Linux support by over a month. But as of September 16th 2005, Hewlette Packard OSS coders released updated drivers enabling the functioning of this device under CUPS.

Due to the infancy of this release at the time of writing, the packages used by Fedora with the necessary drivers are still in their testing stage. But that doesn't mean it is not okay to install them, it just means that they haven't undergone the full screening process and shouldn't be used in mission critical applications.

Software involved

  • Common UNIX Printing System (cups)
  • HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (hplip)
  • Scanner Access Now Easy (sane)

Assumptions:

  • You have already setup and internet connection
  • You know how to enter commands into the command line
  • You know how to become root, or run a command as root

Prerequisites

Be sure that your printer, printer power cable, and usb cable are all in working order

Instructions

The following command will install the drivers. Issue as super user (root):


yum install hplip libsane-hpaio

of if that didn't work, try


yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install hplip libsane-hpaio

Issue the follwwing command to ensure that the service controlling the new drivers is running. Issue as super user (root):


service hplip restart

As a testing step, issue the following command, aftering turing on the connected printer, to ensure that it is being recognized appropriately:


hp-probe

The output of that command shoudl contain:


hp:/usb/PSC_1400_series?serial=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx HP PSC_1400_series

'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' being the serial number of the device.

Just for safety, issue the following command:


service cups restart

Now proceed to configuring of the device. Startup the 'system-config-printer' tool by running it as a command, or navigating to 'System Settings > Printing'. Follow these steps from there:

  1. 'Add a new queue' by clicking the 'New' button, or going to 'Action > New queue'
  2. Click 'Forward'
  3. Select a short name, and a short description
  4. Click 'Forward'
  5. Select 'hp:/usb/PSC_1400_series?serial=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' from the box
  6. Ckick 'Forward'
  7. In the drop down menu which says 'Generic (click to select manufacture)', clickm and select HP
  8. Select the 'DeskJet 3650'
  9. Click 'Forward'
  10. Revise the summary of your configuration, and if you are satisfied, clicl 'Finish'

You should then be given the option to print a test page, I would suggest you do so to verify your setup. If all goes well, then you should have a nice, CUPS test page in your printer's out tray.

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