Hello!

I've bought a HP PSC 1200 All in one printer, and set up everything needed to make it "work".

Cups detected the printer properly and everything seems fine, but i can't print a test page. Every printing job I start is soon marked as aborted, and if i try to "restart" the job, i get the following error :



Since the printer is brand new, i think I could screwed something with the cardiges. (i've checked the HP support page, tweaked as much as i could, but I'm still unable to print pages)


Anyone have experience with it ?

I don't have this printer but I'd suggest you first check it is picked up by the hardware driver. With the printer switched on plug it into the usb port and run command 'dmesg' in a terminal window. At the end of the messages you should see something like

drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0...

Are you using the web interface to CUPS on port 631? I'm not very familiar with that and prefer the KDE interface so I'm not exactly sure how to set things up. You could check the log files in /var/log/cups for useful error messages. You can also increase the CUPS debugging level (although I don't know how to do that in the web interface) and get a complete blow-by-blow account of CUPS attempt to print.

also, make sure HPLIP has been started and is starting on bootup.

Hello,

First of all thanks for the help!

About the errors.. "dmesg" is fine, cups logs too.

@maroonbaboon
What's the name of that kde printing tool ?

I'm using cups and the logs seems fine.

KDE printer interface in in the KDE Control Center. I think you have to install KDE to use it.

Other things to play with are the 'lpstat' command (see man page) which gives info about CUPS status, or you can bypass CUPS and just send some text directly to the printer with something like the command:

echo HELLO > /dev/usb/lp0