On 12/20/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > It seems I am fighting a losing battle with cups once again. I swear, cups is > the single most difficult app I have ever had to deal with... > > Background: > HP Business InkJet 1200 > cups 1.1.23-5 > hplip 0.9.7-1 > foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-1 > foomatic-filters 3.0.2-1 > > As best I can tell (printer was offline for a while, lost the cable during a > move) the problem began with an update to Arch. Apparently the hpijs driver > package was replaced with hplip. Nothing has worked since then. > > First of all, the old printer setup would just stop dead, so I deleted it and > created a new printer in cups. After much cursing and reboots, I finally got > the printer setup, as at first cups or lpinfo -v would not even detect the PP > printer. > > Anyway, I set up the hplip daemon in rc.conf before cups, as was instructed. > At first I was just getting "host busy, will try in 30 seconds" over and > over. After more cursing, and more rebooting I finally got to the point where > it would print a test page. (but don't know how!) > > Of course, when doing the test page the paper jammed. The printer puked and > died. After cycling the power, changing the paper, I tried the test page > again. Nothing happened, at least, nothing printed. When I start a print job > I get 8 processes,including 3: > /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip" > 2 ghostscript (gs), and the last three: > sh -c cat >&3 > cat > hpijs > > All of these processes just hang. In fact, they have been running all night. > There are no errors in the cups log, and I have it set to debug so it is very > verbose. > > I checked lpinfo -m and all the modules are hpijs. What does hplip do? > I tried hp-toolbox and it says no devices found, and tells me to create one > even though the printer is now created and has status of "accepting jobs" in > the cups web interface. > > I am so lost here, and I am out of ideas. Does anyone have a tip or idea of > what is up? I am sorry for this long rambling post but I am near the point of > chucking this damn thing out the window. > > If there is any info you would like to see please just ask... > > Thank you, > -d
Read the instructions on the HP website regarding the use of hplip http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php#print_queue -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User. Home:iphitus.loudas.com _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
