HP LaserJet 4 Plus on FreeBSD 5.3

sether · 11-06-2004, 08:38 PM

i'm having trouble getting a HP LaserJet 4 Plus printer to work on FreeBSD 5.3. I followed the directions word-for-word here: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/...=&pagenumber=1

after doing "Add printer" on the CUPS web interface i try to print a test page and nothing happens. this is what it says:

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Description: HP LaserJet 4 Plus
Location: Local Printer
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Waiting for job to complete..."
Device URI: /printers/HPLaserJet4Plus

and under jobs it says:

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HPLaserJet4Plus-16 Test Page root 1k processing since
Sat Nov 6 18:11:56 2004 Hold Job Cancel Job

HPLaserJet4Plus-17 Test Page root 1k pending since
Sat Nov 6 18:11:56 2004 Hold Job Cancel Job

here is the setup:

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Name: HPLaserJet4Plus
Location: Local Printer
Description: HP LaserJet 4 Plus
Device: Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
Device URI: ipp://localhost:631/printers/HPLaserJet4Plus
Make: HP
Model: HP LaserJet 4 Plus Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) (en)

i used that specific device uri because the exact same uri worked under mandrake 10.0 with the same computer setup. the printer is a local printer connected via a regular printer port (non-usb).

Peacedog · 11-09-2004, 06:14 PM

From the how to you posted here is a quote.

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Next, you will be asked which "Device" - this will usually be either "/dev/lpt0" or "/dev/upt0" which are either the LPT port or USB port. Simply select whichever applies.

Have you tried using the local devices rather than ipp? I'm not trying to say that it won't, or shouldn't work, but if it's a local printer, I'd try that first.
good luck.

sether · 11-09-2004, 07:21 PM

oops, i forgot to update: i got the problem fixed. but thank you Peacedog, that was part of the problem.

i didn't have all the CUPS packages installed (i had installed CUPS from the original install CD), so i had to do

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pkg_add -r cups

which gave me lpadmin and other packages not originally installed. i then used lpadmin to setup the printer by doing

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lpadmin -p LaserJet -E -v parallel:/dev/lpt0 -m laserjet.ppd

and then everything worked.

Peacedog · 11-09-2004, 07:27 PM

I had a bugger of a time getting my freebsd box to print to my shared printer to print via samba using the exact same guide you referenced. Glad you got it sorted.

kxebs · 11-11-2004, 04:43 AM

I've alse cups on my freebsd 5.3 and my printer don't want to print any page.

I've installed cups via the ports .. accatualy as the documentation...

I also have runned the lpadmin command.

In my completed jobs list it says :

laserjet-1 Test Page root 15k aborted Restart Job
laserjet-2 Test Page root 23k aborted Restart Job

In my logfile it says:
Stopped with status 3!

anyone an idea ?

Peacedog · 11-11-2004, 12:17 PM

Have you had a look at this how to.

http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/...=&pagenumber=1

good luck.

kxebs · 11-12-2004, 03:26 AM

that's the one I tried

Peacedog · 11-12-2004, 06:46 AM

Let's get some info, what printer is this, what kind of connection, and what drivers are you using, and did you follow the how to step for step, or did you possibly skip something?
good luck.

kxebs · 11-17-2004, 10:21 AM

I have the HP Laserjet 4 Plus printer, installed on my lpt port ( I have only one ), "BW laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Perfectly"
I downloaded the driver from linuxprinting.org ( HP-LaserJet_4_Plus-hpijs.ppd )
I followed every single step from the manual

AH some new things

.. after some stupid rm's

I did a small reinstall .. well .. I tried it again ... BUT!

Jobs

ID Name User Size State Control
LaserJet-2 Test Page root 15k processing since Wed Nov 17 18:05:30 2004

I runned the lpadmin command and I tried the documentation's way.. both don't end up in a working printer ..

Another thing ..

Description: LaserJet
Location:
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Printing page 1, 23% complete..."
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0

this is the output I get when I click on a job...
It stays on 23% a while, then he say's : "Parallel port busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."

kxebs · 11-17-2004, 11:46 AM

hm .. just waiting long enough was the thing!

now it rolls out my test pages whitout any problem

Firebird only crashes when I push the Print butten .. but that's another problem :P

-X- · 11-17-2004, 03:16 PM

Not sure where you are on the printing issue, but for cups make sure you have the cups-lpr port installed. Then, mv /usr/bin/lp* to /usr/bin/lp*.save. The cups lp stuff is in /usr/local/bin and will be used in place of /usr/bin/lp*. This works in mozilla, for local and remote printing.