Revision as of 17:01, 19 August 2012

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

Working

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

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

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.

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

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

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

We also have many thermel recipt printers.

And a WASP WPL305E barcode printer thing.

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:

Looks like this works now (?)

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 * Replacement toner: 12A
-* Location: Beside the desk with [[Lovelace]] and the [[Makerbot]].
+* Location: Beside the desk with [[Lovelace]].
 * Paper size: A4
 * Type: Black and white laser
 * Affixed to: Babbage
 * Addressable via: CUPSd on Babbage
-* Status: Working but the cable on the floor by the wall under the desk that's held into a USB hub with tape may be dodgy.
+* Status: Working.
-To clear the print queue
+To clear the print queues
-  Browse to http://babbage:631/printers/Gutenberg click on the maintainance droplist and select cancel all jobs
+  Browse to http://babbage:631/jobs/ and it should be apparent what to do.
 To print from a laptop use:
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 *Download the [http://bit.ly/hplj1022 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/gutenberg
+*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===