On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:57:30PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 15:53:40 Chris G wrote:
I'm trying to print some images from Digikam and having no luck at all.
I have two printers both of which have been working quite happily over the past few months, one is an HP7310, the other is an HP1320. The HP7310 is connected by ethernet, the HP1320 is connected via my router (USB printer -> router).
When I print from Digikam everything appears to work perfectly but nothing actually comes out of the printers. Digikam finishes, the print jobs appear in CUPS and that's where they stay for ever as far as I can see. They stay in state 'processing' for a while and then end up 'pending'.
Any ideas how to get something actually printed?
So both printers won't print from Digikam? First, this mostly negates the possibility of a hardware fault. (Can you confirm that, though?)
Yes, but things have developed a little, see below.
Is it Digikam that won't print? Or will nothing else print either? What if you print form Digikam to PDF (if you're on KDE this facility is provided, otherwise you can install and configure CUPS PDF[1]) and then print the PDF (with, like, evince, KPDF, lpr, etc.)?
Other programs print OK, e.g. if I do "ls | lpr" I get immediate output.
I also just tried printing a web page from Firefox, both printers OK.
I'm guessing you must have tested these possibilities, but it would be useful to know if we are to diagnose the problem.
Now to the 'below' bit!
The pictures *eventually* came out on the LJ1320, it took an hour or so per page. They never came out on the OJ7310 and have disappeared from the print queue.
There seems to be a serious speed problem on the LJ1320, when I printed (the same) web page on the LJ1320 and the OJ7310 it came out much faster on the OJ7310. The printer driver for the LJ1320 is shown by CUPS as "HP LaserJet 1320 series Postscript (recommended)", is this an issue (i.e. does postscript/ghostscript make it slow)?