I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet attached. It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 I can't get the configuration to work so that it prints duplex (2-sided). The HP Setup appears to be working from the command line, but the graphic portion doesn't appear to work. Any ideas? TIA, Gene Poole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100106/736dc3af/attachment-0002.html>
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:23:09 gene.poole at macys.com wrote:> I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet > attached. It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, > Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 > x86_64 I can't get the configuration to work so that it prints duplex > (2-sided). The HP Setup appears to be working from the command line, but > the graphic portion doesn't appear to work. Any ideas? >I have a Photosmart with duplexer, attached by wifi. I have some difficulty getting it to remember that I want duplex as default, but I can always configure it from the print dialogue. Does localhost:631 see the print queue correctly? I'm just wondering whether duplex needs to be set up there too. I you can't sort it, HP have a launchpad for problems, and I found them very helpful when I first got my all-in-one. The other thing that strikes me, is that I did have problems on the CentOS box at first, because the hplip that was installed didn't have the correct, up-to- date ppd file. It could be worth checking that against your F11 box. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100106/a918f5aa/attachment-0002.sig>
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:23 PM, <gene.poole at macys.com> wrote:> I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet > attached. ?It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, > Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 > x86_64 I can't get the configuration to work so that it prints duplex > (2-sided). ?The HP Setup appears to be working from the command line, but > the graphic portion doesn't appear to work. Any ideas?I don't have that particular device but have recently configured some other HPs. Are you using the built-in CentOS utility (hplip) or the one from the HP site? I used the one from the website (hplipopensource.com) and had extremely noticeable improvement in image quality and speed, plus all the other options worked fine.
All, I did contact the HP Launchpad site and receive instructions to re-install their driver with some changes I hadn't done. I plan on attempting that this evening and I'll reply tomorrow and let everyone know how it went. Thanks, Gene Poole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100107/a92bb568/attachment-0002.html>