Pissed Off With Mdk10.0

indiocolifa · 07-10-2004, 03:27 PM

I can't get MDK 10 to print on my Laserjet 1005 (USB). It worked only THE FIRST TIME i installed the system, but now it does nothing (and the driver seems installed properly)

where I can start to fix this ?

Im using MDK10.0 CE

apreston · 09-14-2004, 10:43 PM

I have a similar problem after installing Mandrake 10; unable to print to my USB printer - it seems to be something to do with the usblp setup, since the printer was detected correctly on installation and shows up in harddrake's hardware list, but I haven't yet figured out a solotion. Anyone else got some hints?

Daliz · 09-15-2004, 04:51 AM

I had a problem with printing.. I couldn't print from K-applications at all, but Opera and Gimp worked for example. I downloaded the source of cups and compiled it. Now it works

You should maybe try that.

courtrrb · 09-15-2004, 07:23 AM

Check the cups configuration tool report that the cups server is running. Mine keep getting turned off and I havn't figurd out why. When I tri to print I check it and sure enough it turn off again. Th good thing is that my 5 & 7 yr like to print pretty pictures & I have as many as 25-30 request for printing to be canceld before I turn it back on

apreston · 09-16-2004, 12:50 AM

The solution in my case turned out to be relatively simple. It seems the Mandrake 10 installation detected the printer correctly, but messed up the USB printer port configuration (this seems to be a fairly common occurrence, judging by my search results on the topic). All I had to do was go into Mandrake Control Centre printer configuration, remove the printer, start the add printer wizard, turn off auto detection and manually enter the port URI (usb://dev/usb/lp0).