A brainteaser for the longtime diehard Debian-users.
I own already 4 years a newly bought HP Laserjet 1200. I don't remember how long it took me to reinstall it, when I switched 2 years ago from SuSE to Debian-testing. Couple of minutes, anyway smoothly and no headaches on "how to what where why...".
Through literally hundreds of updates (I have from the beginning "testing" in apt-sources) my printer did what it was expected to do flawlessly. Mind you, upDATES not upGRADES.
Well, some 3 weeks ago I printed a couple of pages just as I wanted to have them. Yesterday however NOTHING went anymore, no printjobs were inbetween, only the daily updates. Whatever I did, the error in the subject was literally printed on the paper (with some more other statements), nothing giving a clue to what went wrong.
Google'ing for this mishap and following all the suggestions didn't bring anything, only dozens of papersheets to throw away and the toner diminuishing!
I said all: switch on/switch off, inspecting te cable aso. aso.! Even deleting the printer completely in CUPS and kdeprint, shutting down the PC, starting it again and then installing the printer in both environments didn't improve matters.
Well, at last I was so furious that I wanted to kick PC, Debian and printer out of the window literally. One last chance: install iso. the specifically advised HP-Laserjet 1200-driver a generic postscript-printerdriver.
Perfectly it went then, again as 3 weeks before. BUT some specific adjustments for the printing (draft, normal, high aso.) were not available anymore. These I want to have back again, of course.
2 questions (at this moment):
- where can I see, what specific updates (literally file by file) I have made day by day to possibly reinstall an older version, that has not this this destuctive effect on my printing
- is there another solution (not the Google/HP-blahblah) to get my printer fully-functional again?
Thanks.