On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 3:18 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 1:20 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > >>Following your suggestion I opened Konq and watched /var/spool/cups. I > >>also opened KJobViewer and sent a print job. The Job appeared in the > >>KJobViewer window, and two files appeared in the spool dir. When the job > >>disappeared from KJobViewer one disappeared from the spool dir and one > >>was left there. still nothing made it to the printer. > >> > >>any thoughts? > > > > Hi, Mark. It sounds to me a bit like the problem I had when trying to > > set up printing from a win98 pc to the usb printer on this box. It > > turned out to be a driver problem. I'm not on 9.1 yet, so I can only > > suggest the lines of investigation I would take on 9.0, and you can adapt > > them as necessary. I'm not sure whether you said you had done either of > > these. > > > > 1) HP are pretty good at providing drivers. There may be a specific one > > on their website. But before trying that, look at MCC. > > > > 2) Try setting up a new printer (it will work alongside the other one, > > even if they point to the same printer - I have 4 set up, to give me > > quick access to different settings). Under Hardware > Printers, first > > select expert mode (or is it advanced?), then go through the screens to > > add a printer. When you get to the screen asking you to confirm the > > model, there should be a selection of drivers available for your model. > > Make sure that you have selected the recommended one. If it is no better > > you can use the same setup facility to try the other drivers. > > > > HTH > > > > Anne > > Hi Anne, > > yeah, I've done just that a number of times trying both the HP 1000 and > HP 6P drivers. I have a sneaking suspicion it's a driver problem as > well. However, following Oscar's suggestions earlier in the thread I > went to linuxprinting.org and did all that was mentioned there as well > as getting the firmware .img that needs to be uploaded to the printer. > > I am seeing one of the weird things happening that is mentioned on the > site. print jobs are being sent to the printer and the printer is acting > as /dev/null.
I'm clean out of ideas, then, Mark. I take it that this is a local printer? The similar problem I had was when I was trying to print from windows using the local cups driver, and that was cured by installing local drivers, but that's no help at all if it's local :( Sorry Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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