{"id":42,"date":"2008-09-07T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/2008\/09\/07\/tech-note-apple-os-x-105-and-hp-business-inkjet-1200\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:08:27","slug":"tech-note-apple-os-x-105-and-hp-business-inkjet-1200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Tech Note: Apple OS X 10.5 and HP Business Inkjet 1200"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a HP Business Inkjet 1200n for 4-5 years now and it’s been a great printer. For only $250 I got duplex, ethernet, color and dual trays.<\/p>\n

Apple’s OSX, however has not played well with it. Starting with 10.4, there’s been a low-level problem in CUPS (the free software Apple uses for printing and has since “bought”) on OSX\/Intel that I’ve never been able to diagnose and Apple hasn’t cared to fix it either. So, to print from our MacBooks we’ve had to use a G5 as a print server. Not the end of the world, but annoying.<\/p>\n

I finally upgraded everything to 10.5. and whammo, I can no longer print from the G5. After a few hours of mucking around, I discovered what you could either call the “right way” or a “workaround”. It’s certainly not something you’d think to try, but it works for me:<\/p>\n

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  1. Go into Printer and Fax preferences and delete any existing HP printer using the “-” button.\n
  2. Start adding a printer using the “+” button.\n
  3. Pick “More Printers” and wait for it to grind.\n
  4. Pick “HP IP Printing” from the scoll bar.\n
  5. Pick “Manual”\n
  6. Enter the printer’s IP address and click “Add”.\n<\/ol>\n

    That should bring up a dialog correctly identifying your HP printer.<\/p>\n

    [tags]HP Business Inkjet 1200, OSX, printer[\/tags]<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve had a HP Business Inkjet 1200n for 4-5 years now and it’s been a great printer. For only $250 I got duplex, ethernet, color and dual trays. Apple’s OSX, however has not played well with it. Starting with 10.4, there’s been a low-level problem in CUPS (the free software Apple uses for printing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}