HP LaserJet 2100/M/TN not seen during hplip install

Rich,

We don't support this configuration because of the many different devices and manufacturers of such products we'd be unable to keep up with making them all work. Although in theory if the converting device reported to the system the device it was connected to instead of itself it would probably work. However it seems that your Belkin device doesn't take this approach. You'll probably have less problems if you can possibly connect the printer directly through the parallel port. Using the parallel to usb wont give you any advantage of speed over using the parallel because you'll still be printing at the rate that the printer will function which is parallel.

Hope this helps!

Aaron

Hi Aaron,

Thanks this helps. It would be nice to allow "Manual Input" about the printer when a user specifies what bus and device ID the printer is on.

Looking at the other HP USB printer attached I would assume hplip is relying on this info to make its decisions.
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
...
S: Manufacturer=Hewlett-Packard
S: Product=hp LaserJet 1320 series
S: SerialNumber=00CNL1G05898

Parallel ports are becoming a bit of the past on motherboards.

So there really is no section of code that can be tweaked to allow for such shenanigans?

Yes, the "hp" backend will only recognize usb devices that enumerate with "Manufacturer=Hewlett-Packard". We don't have a way to support usb-to-parallel dongles manually. Getting full 1284.4 support through a usb-to-parallel dongle can be problematic.

For basic printing with no toolbox support there is a work around. Use the "usb" backend instead of the "hp" backend. You can do this with CUPS admin (ie: http://localhost:631). After selecting the "usb" backend you can still select our hpijs ppd file.

-dave

Thanks guys for your help on this,

Rich