HP DeskJet Printer+CUPS problem
Since I am a complete n00b to printing in linux, I went to manage printers which opened up a web page with URL http://localhost:631/. The printer I have is an HP DeskJet 895Cse. I added the printer with the following options.
Description: HP DESKJET 895C Location: Local Printer Make and Model: HP DeskJet 895C - CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.7 Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: usb://HP/DESKJET%20895C?serial=MX92H1T0T9GJ When I tell it to print a test page, it seems to send it to the printer. Usually the printer will print the first line of text then stop then do nothing. When I look in the que, CUPS thinks the job was completed. Any ideas of what's going on or where I should look for answers? |
If I do a virtual install of this printer on my machine, it installs the "Foomatic/HPLIP" driver, which it flags as "recommended".
In my package manager, there are multiple packages which show up using (one at a time) "hplip" and "foomatic" in the search dialog. All of these are installed. don't know if any of this is relevant, but I have few issues with HP printers as long as I use the recommended drivers. |
Hi binarybob0001, Try the hpijs driver and try this Device URI.
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usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Good luck. ;-) |
Well, I haven't gotten anywhere so far. Do I have all the right modules?
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bobby@Veronica:~$ lsmod |
Virtual install simply means I have no printer connected--but I set up a queue regardless. This simply lets me see what the driver options are.
Note that I said Foomatic/HPLIP Again, no clue how this might relate to your issue. |
Where did you get the ppd file?
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I just checked in my home machine and it installs Foomatic/HPIJS---I may have misread the one at work...... Note that you can specify a ppd file during printer setup--thus you can get one direct from HP. |
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I've experienced a similar problem with my hp Deskjet 5440
I've solved it by going to the /etc/rc.d directory, checking if rc.cups is executed, and then making rc.hplip executable. Then I used the "HP device manager" to configure the printer. |
Well, making rc.lplip executable was certainly a step in the right direction, but it didn't solve my problem. I currently have the printer configured like this.
Description: HP DeskJet 895C Location: Local Printer Make and Model: HP DeskJet 895C Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) Printer State: processing, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: hp:/usb/DeskJet_895C?serial=MX92H1T0T9GJ Here is the error log. Maybe one of you guys can see what's happening. Code:
I [01/Nov/2007:06:51:16 -0700] Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"... |
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