Equipment/Printers

The Hackspace is currently in posession of several printers. Some work, some are untested.

Working

HP LaserJet 1022

Please make a donation towards the running costs if you use the printer.

• Replacement toner: 12A
• Location: Beside the desk with Lovelace.
• Paper size: A4
• Type: Black and white laser
• Affixed to: Babbage
• Addressable via: CUPSd on Babbage
• Status: Working.

To clear the print queues

Browse to http://babbage:631/jobs/ and it should be apparent what to do.

To print from a laptop use:

• Driver: HP LaserJet 1022 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.5 (grayscale, 2-sided printing) HP Driver Download Page
• Connection: ipp://172.31.24.101:631/printers/gutenberg

HowTo: Add the HP LaserJet 1022 in XP

• Download the HP LaserJet 1022 driver from the HP website / support section.
• Install, but cancel when it asks you to plug in the printer
• Start->Control Panel->Printers and Faxes->Add a Printer->Add a Network Printer->Connect to a printer on the internet or in a Home / Office Network (add this to the url field): http://babbage:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_1022
• Then manually select the HP Laserjet 1022 driver from the list.

HowTo: Add the HP LaserJet 1022 in Fedora 14

• Under "System Settings" select "Printer Configuration"
• Choose a new network printer and enter "http://babbage:631/printers/Gutenberg" as the printer URI
• done

HP Laserjet Pro CP1025

• Came from Sol
• uses the ZjStream protocol, drivers were installed from: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
• attached to babbage
• seems to just work across the network

If it doesn't, at least for XP follow the instructions above for the 1022,

but use the URL http://babbage:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_CP1025

Other Inventory

Other printing equipment goes here.http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2455

Equipment/Selex

We also have many thermel recipt printers.

And a WASP WPL305E barcode printer thing.

Printer fund

Date	Amount
2011-09-06	£30
2012-05-25	£20
2012-07-21	£60.24

Note on babbage

The version of ubuntu we run on babbage has a bug that means it dosn't share printers via dns-sd (aka rendevous, bonjour, mdns), see this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/465916

Looks like this works now (?)