just got an HP deskjet 3550 and i can't get it to work
i have installed the HP Deskjet 3550 Foomatic/hpijs driver

i am using CUPS

the KDE printing manager shows my hp but the little icon shows a printer with a red circle with a white exclamation mark in it. i cant find documentation that tells me what this means

i think it means stopped, as printing manager shows state as "stopped (accepting jobs)"

when i try to print nothing happens.

then i right-click and "start printer" the little exclamation icon goes away but when i try to print still nothing happens and soon its state reverts to stopped

i am running slackware with kernel 2.6.4 (it didnt work with kernel 2.6.3 or 2.6.1 either)

also when a job is pending and i "start printer" in KDE print manager the exclamation icon gets replaced by a lightning icon which i suppose stands for power

maybe the printer isnt able to draw any power from the usb port??
how would i check that?

looking at localhost:631 it tells me my media tray is empty. this is of course not true.

KDE control center >peripherals>printers and run in administartor mode fix your printer from there

KDE control center >peripherals>printers and run in administartor mode fix your printer from there


this is the same as KDE printing manager

uninstall cups and espgs then reinstall,after uninstallation throw away all related files search with kpackage where the files are.

have done that

now i get in error_log of CUPS
[Job 14] ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] renderer return value: 1
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] renderer received signal: 1
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Process dieing with "Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.", exit stat: 3
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Flushing FIFO.
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] KID4 finished
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Command line/JCL options changed, restarting renderer
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14]
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Closing renderer
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] KID3 exited with status 3
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Renderer exit stat: 3
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Renderer process finished
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Process dieing with "Error closing renderer", exit stat: 3
D [28/Mar/2004:00:21:16 +0800] [Job 14] Error closing renderer

have just realised that error only happens when trying to print test page through kde print manager! i can successfully print normal files through kedit etc..

problem solved!!!!

to solve it i removed cups and ESPghostscript then compiled the latest from source
i installed hpijs which i was missing. i am pretty sure that was the problem all along

oh well hope someone else might find my stupid problem useful

that is good you fixed the prob,but why you compiled you download from slackware.com or some mirrors or from installation cd anyway good!
I had almost same prob some time ago,printer didn't print error message was something about font and I uninstalled the espgs and then reinstalled then worked