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hal-cups-utils package

hal does not recognize my usb printer

Asked by Qluripax

This is maybe a strange question...

I have an Oki C5550 MFP printer shared with a neighbor company. They are using the network connection and I am allowed to use the USB. Using the network connection the printer works well but not using the USB - which is my only option in production. I have reported a bug, 227342 under cupsys for this but it seams to be the wrong package...

The last thing I tried was to use the printer in an virtualbox with xp (damn it). I can use my usb-stick that way so i don't have problem with USB in VirtualBox as others but the printer can not be "transfered" to the virtual machine.
I'm pretty sure that the printer is doing something special that is not recognized by Linux.

The printer is crap - but expensive. And for me it's a possibility to have an color laser printer for free. I want this printer working via USB, so how can I do my job to help the community with this?

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#1

The entry at

http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Oki-C5550_MFP

indicates that this printer mostly works and recommends a Postscript driver.

The problem may be with permissions. Have you checked out everything in System > Administration > Printing, especially Policies and Access Control.

Tony

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