Dell 1250c

[heureka]

Hello.
This forum is sth like my last hope.
I'm not a complete newby to Linux as I'm working with it since some years now.
But I have problems with my Centos 6.7 on an older PC to recognize my Dell Laser printer.
I installed firms driver, the foomatic driver also, but nothing helps.
When I connect any printer like a Brother, cups purpose me this device as an USB-device. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the Dell 1250c. When I connect it, nothing goes on, there is no device selection possible. CUPS does not regognize the printer.

I searched a lot across the internet, but can't find some pertinent informations about that issue.

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# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 413c:5404 Dell Computer Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS ZD1211B 802.11g
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) NetScroll+ Mini Traveler / Genius NetScroll 120
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bc7:0006 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc. Wireless Transceiver (ACPI-compliant)
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0566:3002 Monterey International Corp. Keyboard

Do you have an idea of solution?

[anglican]

That printer is an HBPLv1 printer i.e. it is not supported by the foo2hpbl program that only works with HBPLv2 printers. There is a modified version that should work:

http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/hbpl/

I've only used the foo2hpbl driver so I can't vouch for this modified version, but the driver it's based on (from http://foo2hbpl.rkkda.com/) I have used and it works very well in a variety of linux environments.

H