If this is of any help, this is hp-info:

simon@box:~$ hp-info

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.4)
Device Information Utility ver. 3.0

Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.


Choose device from probed devices connected on bus(es): usb,cups:

Using device: hp:/usb/psc_1100_series?serial=MY37ND93FBB0

Info for: hp:/usb/psc_1100_series?serial=MY37ND93FBB0

Device Parameters:
Parameter Value(s)
---------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
3bit-status-code 24
3bit-status-name NoFault
agent1-ack False
agent1-desc Black cartridge
agent1-dvc 0
agent1-health 0
agent1-health-desc OK
agent1-hp-ink False
agent1-kind 3
agent1-known False
agent1-level 32
agent1-level-trigger 0
agent1-sku 56/27
agent1-type 1
agent1-virgin False
agent2-ack False
agent2-desc Tri-color cartridge
agent2-dvc 0
agent2-health 0
agent2-health-desc OK
agent2-hp-ink False
agent2-kind 3
agent2-known False
agent2-level 9
agent2-level-trigger 0
agent2-sku 57/28
agent2-type 2
agent2-virgin False
back-end hp
cups-printers
dev-file
device-state 0
deviceid MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDLsc 1100
series;CMD:LDL,MLC,PML,DYN;CLS:PRINTER;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;SN
:MY37ND93FBB0;S:0380008000820000002c1480020c2500009;
duplexer 0
error-state 0
host
in-tray1 True
in-tray2 False
is-hp True
media-path 2
panel 0
panel-line1
panel-line2
photo-tray 0
port 1
r 0
revision 3
rg 0
rr 0
rs 0
serial MY37ND93FBB0
status-code 1000
status-desc The printer is idle.
supply-door 0
top-door 1

Model Parameters:
Parameter Value(s)
---------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
align-type 4
clean-type 2
color-cal-type 0
copy-type 0
embedded-server-type 0
fax-type 0
io-control 0
io-mfp-mode 2
io-mode 1
io-scan-port 0
io-support 2
model psc_1100_series
model-ui HP PSC 1100 series
panel-check-type 1
pcard-type 0
r0-agent1-kind 3
r0-agent1-sku 56/27
r0-agent1-type 1
r0-agent2-kind 3
r0-agent2-sku 57/28
r0-agent2-type 2
scan-type 1
status-type 2
support-type 2
tech-class DJ3320
tech-type 2

Status History:
Date/Time Status Description (code)
---------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
08/11/2005 20:55:19 The printer is idle. (1000)
08/11/2005 20:54:01 The printer is idle. (1000)

To find out the correct URI use probe:
Here is the output of probe on my pc:
mmyoung@darkstar:~$ /usr/share/hplip/probe

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.4)
Device Detection (Probe) Utility ver. 1.2

Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Device URI Model
------------------------------------------- ------------------
hp:/usb/PSC_1600_series?serial=MY4ADB4209L0 HP PSC_1600_series

When you set up your printer in CUPS you won't see the URI, mine just shows up as usb printer #1 (5540), but when you finish the URI should be listed on the page where you can do a test print job.

Later,
MMYoung

This is on the cups admin page.


Device URI: usb://Hewlett-Packard/psc%201100%20series?serial=MY37ND93FBB0

The only difference between that and my printer model number is an extra BO on the end!

That's your URI. From looking at the rest of the info output it looks like everything is in order with this lone exception:
cups-printers (yours)
cups-printers PSC-1610 (mine)

Any other differences are basically due to the different printers. You might want to check on their mailing list to see if anything like what you are experiencing has been reported before. If not post there and see what they say. The folks at HP seem to be pretty helpful and are fairly responsive.

You might want to double check your printer setup in CUPS web admin one more time just to be sure. Heck you've got nothing to lose so just delete the printer and start from scratch .

Later,
MMYoung

Something I just thought of, if you can open the HP Device Manager from your DE, take a look at the configuration settings. Click on Configure --> Configure HP Device --> Function Commands. In there my scan setting is:

xsane -V %SANE_URI%

HTH,
MMYoung

I stand corrected on adding the device.

I must have been thinking of hpoj.

Probably so. I used the hpoj prior to hplip and the main thing I remember about that was having to be sure and start ptal before cups, which meant having to "monkey" around with rc.M. Now I just add a little if/fi thingy to rc.local to start hplip without having to worry about when cups starts.

I've built my own package of hplip and have "tinkered" with it to make it more Slackware like rather than RH like, basically moved the /etc/initd/hplip to /etc/rc.d/rc.hplip and then deleted the initd folder, and the doinst.sh file has a function that "byte-compiles" the python files so that it executes faster.

Later,
MMYoung

Upon my misthinking in this thread, I upgraded to hplip using the www.linuxpackages.org package, mostly cause the scanning stopped working with hpoj. Now it works even better than before. Gotta make sure you have all the dependencies by trying to install using the Debian sequence in the Installation page.

These are the install instructions I have posted for my personal package. They've worked everytime for me and others have installed using these instructions with no problems.

This software requires the following to be installed:
kdebindings-3.3.x
kdelibs-3.3.x
kdemultimedia-3.3.x
qt-3.3.x,
net-snmp-5.2.x.

If you already have KDE installed then the only package you need is net-snmp from linuxpackages.net, everything else is installed with a full install of Slackware Install CD1. I use Gnome so I had to install the KDE stuff to satisfy all dependencies.

1. Install kdebindings, kdelibs, kdemultimedia, and qt (if necessary).

2. Install net-snmp.

3. Install hplip-0.9.4

4. cd to /etc/rc.d and rename rc.hplip.new to rc.hplip.

5. Run ./rc.hplip start. You should just see two lines ending in OK, anything else
and there's a problem. Note any errors.

6. You will need to add the following (or something similar) to your rc.local file
so that rc.hplip will run at boot.

# Start the HPLIP Printer/Scanner service
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hplip ]; then
echo "Starting HPLIP Printer/Scanner Daemon"
/etc/rc.d/rc.hplip start
echo "HPLIP Started"
fi

7. Next you need to restart cups by running /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart

8. If everything worked so far, click on Applications --> Accessories --> HP Device Manager

Later,
MMYoung

When you configure it through cups it'll give the URI that starts hp:.....

GRRR, I installed everything, stopped CUPS, started hplip restarted CUPS. Went to the toolbox, no devices configured. Went through localhost:631 to configure the device using the hp: URI.

Only when I open Kooka or Xsane it tells me that there are no scanning devices detected. :?

Would it work better if you compiled hplip? I haven't tried yet but packages sometimes don't work as well. I can't get into the device manager at all.

I guess I could try compiling it. I already tried that and it pooped out on me on installation.

This is what I get when I compile and try to install:

According to the hplip homepage all this required:

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GNU Ghostscript 7.05 or higher.

Foomatic 3.0.2 or higher.

Qt 3.x or higher for UI toolkit.

PyQt 3.11 or higher for Qt wrapper for Python.

Python 2.2 or higher and python-devel.

CUPS 1.15 or higher and cups-devel.

net-snmp 5.0.9 or higher and net-snmp-devel for network support.

HPLIP has been tested on most major Linux distributions, but only 32-bit and little-endian systems have been tested.

chkconfig or install_initd for HPLIP startup/shutdown script.

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I'm not totally sure I've got them. Apart from net-snmp I can't see cups-devel, foomatic, PyQt or Ghostscript.