Pringing with foo2xqx
I hate cups. It does't help, I know. I have a HP Laserjet P1005, and foo2zjs (foo2xqx actually) and it won't print. I'm trying to print locally without any particular messing (Other than cups) using the foo2zjs driver.
I updated, deleted everything printing, reinstalled foo2zjs, cups, foomatic-filters, and even gutenprint. Then I sorted out the niggles that I could. usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0 returns Code:
MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet P1005;CMD:HBS,PJL,ACL;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP LaserJet P1005;FWVER:20090916; Code:
D [01/May/2011:17:12:56 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 10 GET /cups.css HTTP/1.1 Anyone sorted this? |
hi man
i have the exact same printer. here's how to make it print: following the instructions from here: http://foo2xqx.rkkda.com/ (Download and install section): remove the "system-config-printer" package!! Otherwise when you later do "make install-hotplug" it will complain that there is a conflict. Also, when I first struggled with these things I had to remove the "hplip" package as well! when installing the drivers as described on the webpage, make sure you do: ./getweb P1005 and right after "make install" do make install-hotplug (as they recommend) then restart cups and switch off and on your printer hope this helps |
I have the same printer, too, and I use the same foomatic driver. You need to follow the instructions from above and additionally I had to remove 2 packages: system-config-printer and hplip. It works with slack 13.0 and 13.1, 32 and 64 bit.
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Thanks guys. I'm getting there.
It prints a test page, it prints from a direct invocation (e.g. lp). It prints from Mozilla. Now just to sort openoffice. For slackware developers, Note this one as one that does _not_ work on an upgrade. I upgraded 32bit & 64bit |
Hello business_kid,
you may want to check the /etc/cups directory after an upgrade. If there are files *.orig, the originals are replaced by slackpkg. This may be the reason if anything is not working after an automatic upgrade. Markus |
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Anyhow what I did was to remove everything printing - make uninstall on foo2zjs, removepkg on the rest, then rm -rf on /etc/cups, /var/cache/cups/ /usr/lib/cups some other directories cups removepkg highlighted as not deleted. THEN, install cups, foomatic(packages), and foo2zjs as per instructions. Then beat the /etc/hotplug/usb and /usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware into place, get the firmware loading. I eventually realised that I had been sent a seriously nobbled xls I was never going to print. It has one page of information, two sheets show in OO, but but wants to print 7 pages and exports 7 to a pdf. The one sheet of useful data is on page 7, and I get "broken table ... continuing anyway". It printed on windows, someone else printed it so I don't care. I can print the exported pdf with lp -P 7 but it defaults to portrait and I wanted landscape - yesterday. Thanks to all for their help, & marking this solved. |
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