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Old 06-07-2006, 10:18 AM   #1
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Deskjet 3653 not Printing


I have set up my printer using KDE's printer management tool. When I go to test my printer, the printer starts to move but nothing gets printed. The jobs status continues to say it is printing although it's not.
 
Old 06-07-2006, 11:46 AM   #2
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Install the hplip package, and then configure your printer using cups.
http://localhost:631

Before doing this however, add yourself as a cups administrator using the "lppasswd" program.
lppasswd -a <your username>
<your password>

Then when a username/password dialog pops up during the cups printer install, enter your own username and password.
 
Old 06-07-2006, 12:02 PM   #3
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Thanks for the advice, but this didn't help. It's still the same problem. The printer starts up like it's going to print but it doesn't print anything.
 
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Which printer did you select in the setup? According to linuxprinting.org, the 3650 printer doesn't even understand PCL3. I wonder if this is the printer equivalent of a win modem. There is a crude technique, of deleting the printer and starting over. Sometimes this will erase a hard to find mistake.

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Old 07-21-2006, 08:51 PM   #5
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I solved this problem. It was a hardware issue at first but I also had to set the uri to usb:/dev/usblp0 in openSuse. When I switched to Kubuntu, the uri had to be different. I used the hp-makeuri command to make a uri based on a devnode. The command was "hp-makeuri /dev/usblp0" and the resulting uri to use was hp:/usb/deskjet_3600?device=/dev/usblp0.
 
  


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