HP PSC 1210
15 Sep 2004Google loves my site, so I am putting this out there for others who may be tearing their hair out like I was. I was trying to make CUPS print to an HP PSC 1210 shared via samba on a windows XP box. It wouldn’t work. No matter what I did. I even tried installing an Lpd spooler on the windows box and even THAT yielded the same error: “Error - printing”. Gee, thanks, Windows, that really points me in the right direction.
No matter what I did I got a job in the queue with “Error - printing” that showed 64.0 KB / [job size] downloaded.
The answer, as referenced here is to simply turn off bi-directional printing in the properties for the HP PSC 1210.
Phew.
Yeah the guys that test the drivers and put them on the internal depot servers hack them to have it off and uncheckable. Chatter back from the printer is not good when you have 500+ them the server is dealing with.