[PLUG] printer issue

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at kens.cad2cam.com
Thu Jul 24 22:38:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 14:52, Jeff Schwaber wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:49, Brian Beattie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:37, Jeff Schwaber wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > I will say this: I have not used CUPS before and so this may be a stupid
> > > problem, but I have checked a bunch of sources online including cups.org
> > > and google and have not found a solution yet.
> > > 
> > > I have a new-to-me HP Laserjet IIP+ that prints beautifully under
> > > Windows, but will not print consistently under Linux. It's set up under
> > > CUPS as an HP Laserjet II series using Gimp Print, and I have made sure
> > > to set the paper to Letter (this will be important momentarily).
> > 
> > It should be set up as a IIP, not a II
> 
> Yeah, the IIP driver didn't come with my installation of gimp-print, but
> I just added the PPD and tried it and I don't get any farther. I no
> longer have the A4 problem--put it on A4, put it on Letter, and it does
> the same thing--the printer just sits there idle saying Ready. Meanwhile
> CUPS first attempts to stop the printer, then when I tell it to start
> again and then give it something to print, it aborts the job.
> 
> So I went back and looked through linuxprinting.org and went and
> rechecked that I'd installed everything. In fact I hadn't -- I was
> missing some of the foomatic things (what a cool name) and I added
> those, and ... ta da! I was back to LC LOAD / A4.
> 
> grr. Stupid printer.
> 
> Any more thoughts?
> 
> Jeff
What do the logs say? /var/log/cups/error_log or access_log?

Ken






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