Hi folks,

FC6
HP Deskjet 5740-USB printer
GnomeDesktop

My printer can't print document but it printed "testpage". I have the printer properly setup, http://localhost:631 showing the printer "CUP/HPDeskjet_5740"and CUP/Cups-PDF".

On terminal ran;
# lpqLast time, several days ago, I encountered the same problem. I can't remember exactly how I fixed it. What I can remember is "I have to delete the printer and reinstall it". It seems to me each time I have to repeat this step. But this time it fails even after delete/reinstall the printer.

Please help. TIA


B.R.
satimis

Have you tried configuring the printer from the Fedora GUI setup?

Have you tried printing from any applications?

Hi pixellany,

Whether you meant on GnomeDesktop (in my case)
System --> Administration --> Printing

Yes, I tried it. I can print a testpage but not a .pdf document.

This is not the first time I encountered the same problem, at least 2~3 times before. After working around deleting the printer and reinstalling the printer several times I can get the printer to print again.

$ lpq
showing the job number.
NOT like now.

I do hope to find out the cause, not coming to the same problem again in future. I trust if deleting the printer and reinstalling the printer the 2nd time, I can get the printer work again.

B.R.
satimis

What applications are you printing from? eg what app did you use to try and print the .pdf?

Sorry I don't follow.

I just clicked the .pdf file on "Home Folder" to start it and print the file by clicking;
File --> Print

It worked for me for prolonged time. I have Adobe Reader installed on FC6.

Tks.


B.R.
satimis

The Linux version of Acroread does not give a dialog to choose printers--it just shows "lp" command--to which you can add options. Perhaps your printer setup is not assigning the default correctly???

Try:

Printing a simple text file from the CLI using "lp <filename>"

Printing from some other application--eg OpenOffice or one of the GUI text editors.

Hi pixellany,

GnomeDesktop


I re-setup 2 printers with different Device URL

Printer-1
Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_5700?serial=MY4B5131V9049M

Printer-2
Device URI: lpd://host/queue

On Firefox stared yahoo mail and clicked a mail --> printabe view
File --> Print
Now this time printer-1 can print the doc but not printer-2.


This discovery amazes me. Last time I setup the printer according to Printer-l Device URI. Because it did not print when I started FC6. Then I modified the printer according to Printer-2 Device URI. It can't print. I created a new printer as Printer-1. It printed.


On Terminal
$ lp burning_dvd.txtB.R.
satimis

satimis;

As of right now, you know more about how this works than I do....

somewhere there is a way to set the default which lp looks for?? (Time for the CUPS manual maybe...)