Hi all,

I had been fighting with an HP DeskJet 820Cse 'for windows' Professional Series printer since last Saturday. Many moons ago I got a similar printer, namely the HP 722C to work on an easlier version of Debian, but since my note taking abilities leave a Great deal to be desired, and my mind isn't what it used to be, I just was having a terrible time of it.

Anyway, last night I just happened across this link, http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/install_winprinter.php This article has some very good info. I also came across some thing about 'printconf' while doing some searching about Debian and Winprinters.

The long and short of this story is: I checked out what printconf wanted for required and suggested packages, did the “apt-get install” for them all and installed printconf last.

Once printconf was installed it ran a wizard, asked to probe attached printers, found the 820Cse, and unlike other attempts I have made, this installed all of the required drivers and printed a test page.

I have tried the printer with OOo and it worked perfectly, as it has with Firefox. I am a Very happy camper, and anyone running Debian, find the deb package called 'printconf', find all of its required and suggested packages and install them first. Then sit back and enjoy your printer.

– original contribution by Lonnie R Mullenix http://mail.linuxbasics.org/pipermail/qna/2004-November/000352.html