HP Deskjet 3740 Doesn't Work
 

Hello,

I am trying to get an HP deskjet 3740 usb printer to work on my Fedora core 3 system. I put the driver HP-DeskJet_3740-hpijs.ppd in /etc/cups/ppd. this seemed to make it visible to cups through the html interface. After several hours of fooling around with these settings I tried the system-config-printer program. This set up a print queue named printer, with a queue type of /dev/usb/lp0 HPDeskjet 3740. The printer driver is Raw Print Queue. This did not seem right so I went into /etc/cups/ppd and backed up printer.ppd and copied HP-DeskJet_3740-hpijs.ppd into it. Then I rebooted. If I print a a cups test page from the config program it doesn't do anything.


My kernel is 2.6.10-1.770_FC3.

Here is the part of dmesg that I think may be relevant:

usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x7404
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10

Here is the lsusb output:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:7404 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Mark

Here are some drivers and instructions.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...P-DeskJet_3740

Mine is working fine as a network printer.

Get the hpijs driver from the link above and go to http://localhost:631 with a browser to configure it. The original drivers I got only worked on the color printer cartidge and the printer is still configured that way.

The info on my printer from http://localhost:631/printers :


HP DeskJet 3740 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
Description: HP DeskJet 3740
Location:
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
Device URI: usb://3740?serial=CN4B2151M9045Y/

Hello,

Mine looks like this:

HP DeskJet 3740 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
Description:
Location:
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
"Ready to print."
Device URI: usb://3740?serial=CN4CB161DD045Y

and it still doesnt work.

I suspect that it has something to do with the redhat printer configuration in Fedora Core 3.


Thanks,

Mark

I had a similar problem with my HP 3650, I found that if you go to the printer configuration and select the queue type above the one that is automatically created (should be dev/usb/lp0 ) plus enable sharing, the printer should work. At least that's what worked for mine.

Well,

Thanks for the idea, but it is still not working. can anyone give me some clues as to how to troubleshoot this bear?


Thanks,

Mark