Connected new HP laser printer (Laserjet Professional P1100w) and Mint found it, knew what it was, installed it, and that was all.
Turn it on and lights flash and then settle to a single continuous one, but I can't make it print: it just sits there sullenly.
I clicked on 'troubleshoot' and this is the result: ______________________________________________________________________
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.
[hplip] version=3.12.6
[dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hplip doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc/HTML icon=no cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter drv=/usr/share/cups/drv
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. [configure] network-build=yes libusb01-build=no pp-build=yes gui-build=yes scanner-build=yes fax-build=yes dbus-build=yes cups11-build=no doc-build=yes shadow-build=no hpijs-install=yes foomatic-drv-install=yes foomatic-ppd-install=yes foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no hpcups-install=yes cups-drv-install=yes cups-ppd-install=no internal-tag=3.12.6 restricted-build=no ui-toolkit=qt4 qt3=no qt4=yes policy-kit=yes hpijs-only-build=no lite-build=no udev-acl-rules=yes udev_sysfs_rules=no hpcups-only-build=no hpijs-only-build=no ______________________________________________________________________
Anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong from this? (Or not doing...)
Oh, and a codicil to my HP plea - I've no internet connection at home, so it'll probably be Monday before I read any replies amongst my tea and wifi in Norwich, so I'm not ignoring you...
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:00:57PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Connected new HP laser printer (Laserjet Professional P1100w) and Mint found it, knew what it was, installed it, and that was all.
Turn it on and lights flash and then settle to a single continuous one, but I can't make it print: it just sits there sullenly.
I've been having trouble with recent CUPS versions, I'm running version 1.7rc1 on Ubuntu 13.10 at the moment. Often my HP 1320 printer behaves like yours, no errors from the sending end and no print-out.
If I reboot then the printer will often print successfully but then after a few jobs lapses into sullen silence again.
This never used to happen a few versions ago.
On 07/03/14 18:27, Chris Green wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:00:57PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Connected new HP laser printer (Laserjet Professional P1100w) and Mint found it, knew what it was, installed it, and that was all.
Turn it on and lights flash and then settle to a single continuous one, but I can't make it print: it just sits there sullenly.
I've been having trouble with recent CUPS versions, I'm running version 1.7rc1 on Ubuntu 13.10 at the moment. Often my HP 1320 printer behaves like yours, no errors from the sending end and no print-out.
If I reboot then the printer will often print successfully but then after a few jobs lapses into sullen silence again.
This never used to happen a few versions ago.
Well, not with Linux, anyway...
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 06:27:22PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:00:57PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Connected new HP laser printer (Laserjet Professional P1100w) and Mint found it, knew what it was, installed it, and that was all.
Turn it on and lights flash and then settle to a single continuous one, but I can't make it print: it just sits there sullenly.
I've been having trouble with recent CUPS versions, I'm running version 1.7rc1 on Ubuntu 13.10 at the moment. Often my HP 1320 printer behaves like yours, no errors from the sending end and no print-out.
If I reboot then the printer will often print successfully but then after a few jobs lapses into sullen silence again.
This never used to happen a few versions ago.
I think I have finally found out what the problem was. The latest CUPS HP drivers are PCL6 and these "don't agree" with my fairly old Laserjet 1320.
When the printer stopped working it *sometimes* printed out an error message headed "PCL XL error" and searching for this suggested that downgrading the driver to PCL5E would fic the problem. On CUPS the only specific PCL version available is PCL3 so I've changed the driver to that one and now all seems to be OK.
On 07/03/14 16:00, Anthony Anson wrote:
Connected new HP laser printer (Laserjet Professional P1100w) and Mint found it, knew what it was, installed it, and that was all.
Turn it on and lights flash and then settle to a single continuous one, but I can't make it print: it just sits there sullenly.
I have, of late, noticed that I must turn the printer[1] on *after* I have logged in or it will refuse to print. Didn't used to do that.
Nev [1] HP2605 Laserjet
On 08/03/14 06:03, nev young wrote:
I have, of late, noticed that I must turn the printer[1] on *after* I have logged in or it will refuse to print. Didn't used to do that.
Nev [1] HP2605 Laserjet
I'll have to tweak its tail a bit, then.
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