Debian: HP Officejet 5610 Network Printing How-To
Sorry I’ve been busy with a lot of paper works lately. I just bought a HP Officejet 5610 and has been printing quite a lot documents. This is an ALL IN ONE series, has the capability of scan, print and fax, ideal solution for small business environment. My previous HP PSC 1400 is passed to another friend.
I use my debian box to physically connect to the device with usb cable. Setting up the printer should be as easy as my previous HP PSC 1400 how-to. There’s one extra package needs to be installed for this model.
- hpijs-ppds
This is a collection of HP printers’ ppd files. 5610 appears to be in it.
Sharing HP Officejet 5610
Following my previous how-to, the device should be running fine on the Linux platform. Now let’s share it on the local network. Here’s my Samba config file for printers.
Codes:
[global]
printing = cups # tell samba that we’d like CUPS for printing
printcap name = cups
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
[HP_OfficeJet_5610]
printable = Yes
printer name = HP_OfficeJet_5610
guest ok = yes
use client driver = yes
path = /var/spool/samba
printing = cups
Note: Add necessary lines instead of copy and paste, do not remove your original config lines.
Restart your samba service after editing the config file.
Codes:
/etc/init.d/samba restart
Installing HP Officejet 5610 as network printer on Windows
On Windows machine, we need to locate the device. Use Windows Explorer and search your network. For fast access I always input following line in the address bar.
Codes:
\\ip_or_hostname\
You should see a printer name “HP_Officejet_5610″(as my samba settings). Double click on the printer will prompt you dialog to install the printer’s driver. Unfortunately, bundled installation cd has no available driver for user to extract. We have to look for alternative here.
Thanks so much to the CUPS team, they have a windows version of CUPS driver available. You can download it here. Download the .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 version on to your windows machine. Extract the file to somewhere on your desktop.
During the selection of driver, click “Have Disk”, and browse to the latest extracted folder, the driver file will be “cups-windows-6.0\i386\cups6.inf“, and there you go, print your test page.
You can repeat this step on any other windows machine you wish to access the printer.
Here’s a test page of Windows XP using CUPS driver.
Please share your experience with me.
References:
http://www.mail-archive.com/hplip-help@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03674.html
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=19385&start=0
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March 6th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Thanks for the tip! I’ve been trying to get my 5610 printing over the network since the weekend. I didn’t even think of looking for a CUPS driver.
If you want to enable colour printing from Windows edit this file before installing:
cups-windows-6.0i386cups6.ppd
as follows:
Replace the lines:
*ColorDevice: False
*DefaultColorSpace: Gray
with
*ColorDevice: True
*DefaultColorSpace: CMYK
If you have already installed the driver edit the CUPS6.PPD file under the C:WINDOWS directory the same way, delete and reinstall the printer.
You should see:
Color: Yes
In the Features box in the printer properties
HTH,
Jim