Printing ProblemHP L7680 All-in-One on Mageia 3
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The printer is directly on the network with its own IP address and works fine with every other computer in the house.
It works fine with this computer under Windows and, previously, with Wubi and Mint 13, but I can't seem to get it to print with Mageia. I tried installing it using Mageia's own tools and with HPLIP several times. In both cases, it appears to be properly set up, but when I send a page to the printer, whether it's a test page or a page from a document, it pulls two sheets of paper, prints random text across the top of the first one, and feeds the second one through blank. When I look at the cups logs, everything looks okay to my untrained eye. For example: Code:
# tail -100 /var/log/cups/page_log This is not an emergency. I'm more curious than anything else. I have also posted this to the forums for my LUG; if I learn anything there, I'll post it back here. |
The posted random text is Printer Job Language. PJL is an extension to PCL which is the language your printer uses. I can not tell exactly but I would guess the PJL start code is missing or incorrect. It should be Ec%-12345X@PJL where Ec% is the escape code. I'm not sure where to start looking for PJL or filter in cups at the moment.
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Thanks, michaelk. Now at least I have something to look for!
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I don't have your hw but have you seen note 8 of
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...pro_l7600.html which links to http://hplipopensource.com/node/309 |
If you look at the information box it states none which means a plug in is not required.
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Just as an update, no progess so far, but, as I said in my original post, it's a low priority. I'll keep poking at it when time allows.
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ok hope you don't mind a fishing expedition either
since you are have tried to print as a local user, can you print as root? how about posting the contents of your cupds.conf? |
Darn, I should have thought of testing as root. I'll report back tomorrow.
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Tested as root, both from Kate and from the command line. No change, output to the error log, access and page logs report successful print job.
When I get a chance sometime later this week, I'll remove the Mageia HPLIP package, test again with without it, then try compiling HPLIP from sources. |
I still haven't gotten my printer to work with Mageia, but I did something today that leads me to think that this is a Magiea bug.
I have a VM of PCLinuxOS on the Mageia machine, because I wanted to take a look at that distro. On a whim, I gave it a bridged network connection and was able to install the printer to PCLinuxOS (in the VM) and print a valid test page. |
I know this is old, but the problem is, in a manner of speaking, fixed, so here is the rest of the story.
Because of a number of nagging little issues--no serious, but in aggregate irritating--stemming from the on-line version upgrade from v. 3 to v. 4, I wiped the install and installed v.4 from scratch. The printer now works properly. |
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