How to print to wireless HP Officejet 6500 E709n?

[uxhamby]

OK, I am obviously missing a crucial detail to do with CUPS and HPLIP etc, and could use some sage advice please:

I have a working HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer which I regularly use with Win XP.

(One of the few remaining hurdles left, for me to abandon XP completely in favour of Puppy Linux is reliable printing/ scanning & faxing via this HP Officejet 6500 E709n all in one wireless printer.)

I am running Precise Puppy 5.4.3 and 5.7.1 on various machines on my lan. I have one week old (liveCD) installations, which are pretty clean, neat and for the most part unmolested.

From a web browser on Puppy, I can see and interact with the Officejet 6500 E709n's web interface pages.

I have PUPPY's native CUPS utility running and apparently willing to work. I have installed HPLIP 3.12.2 from the PET pkg manager. Without HPLIP, my printer didn't show up in the list hence HPLIP was installed.

In CUPS web interface, I go to 'add a printer' which, since the installation of HPLIP now offers me HPLIP printers as an option. I select HPLIP and choose HP Officejet 6500 E709n from the list. Then I am offered a page to enter a URL to my printer. This is where I go off the rails I think.

In the dialog box to fill in the link to the printer, the letters 'hp' are already present. All the accompanying examples however have a formal URL look about them but don't work if followed literally, which may mean abandoning the offered 'hp' or not. I have tried the following with no evident connection to the printer being created:

http://192.168.55.103:631/ipp/
http://192.168.55.103:631/ipp/port1

ipp://192.168.55.103/ipp/

hp192.168.55.103
hp:192.168.55.103

Mostly I get test print jobs just hanging indefinitely, with no diagnostics offered but in the case of 'hp192.168.55.103' I get a printer cannot be found message.

My question then is:

What form SHOULD the URL to the printer take in this case?

Your wisdom and advice please...........


Thanks,

Brian H.

[uxhamby]

Turns out that the correct format for my installation is:

socket://192.168.55.103:9100

The doc that made the difference for me was:

http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html

Hope this is useful to some folks,

Cheers,

Brian H.

[rcrsn51]

@uxhamby: Your source for information about printing in Puppy is here. Under "Things to Know", note #5 and #6.

In most cases, a networked HP printer should be auto-detected by CUPS.

At the bottom of the page is a link to an HP printer driver PET that will work with your Officejet. You don't need to install anything from a PPM.