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This has nothing to do with the HPIJS driver, the HPIJS driver is simply a
filter which converts PostScript to PCL.
Your problem is some USB problem. HPOJ uses the USB in another way than direct
printing. Direct printing simply sends a continuous data stream to the printer,
HPOJ sends the data in packets as it is done on the ethernet or other types of
LAN. This way one can print and scan on one multi-function device at the same
time. Probably your USB controller has some interferance with the kernel when
used in continuous stream mode but it works perfectly in packet mode. So you
should stay with HPOJ for this printer and every other HP printer which you will
get, independent whether its a simple printer or a multi-function device.
We go gold with 9.1 today, so we do not have the time any more to develop a
method to automatically decide whether a stand-alone printer from HP has to be
installed with HPOJ.
But ss this interference get known to us, we will probably put out an "Errata"
item telling the people to use HPOJ in that case.
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I have a serious printer problem (*) which I cannot investigate because
for me CUPS does not work at all in KDE :-\
Cooker freshly installed on a newly formatted partition, on Monday evening
March 9.
Printer is a HP Deskjet 970 Cxi, installed during the installation proces
with the (recommended) hpij drivers.
I'm using a DELL dimension XPS D233 (Pentium II 233) with 224 MB RAM.
Test page prints OK during the installation process except for the problem
mentioned at (*) which I was trying to investigate in the first place.
First observation: I notice that CUPS is not configured in KDE as the default
printing system. Instead the default is "Generic UNIX LPD Print System".
Is this intentional? I thought we were switching to CUPS?
Perhaps I made an error in the installation process somewhere...
Second observation.
I try to print something with the default printing system.
It works(*).
I switch to CUPS to try and print something.
It works (*)
I try to print again, with 2 pages per sheet.
Now the application crashes immediately.
>From this point on, any application I am in crashes instantly
when I select CUPS _and_ select the HP Deskjet printer.
Also the control panel (Peripherals-Printers) crashes when
I make these selections.
I switched the debug level of cupsd to debug2, restarted
cupsd, and (in a konqueror print dialog) selected
CUPS as printing system in combination with my Deskjet printer.
It crashed and produced the attached /var/log/cups/error_log
I'm competely at a loss what to do next.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that I accidentally
named my server DELL and it cannot find it in the /etc/hosts?
Please advice on possible log files or whatever that you want me
to include.
(*) Apart from the above-described CUPS problem I am experiencing
the following printing problem.
It seems to be unrelated to the CUPS problem because it was ALWAYS for
me like this during the last two months using Cooker.
The problem is described as follows:
I print a couple of pages with simple text, does not matter from which
application in KDE.
Printer is configured in draft mode.
First page starts very fast.
At half of page printing slows done with pauses between the lines.
Sometimes the printing stops completely at the half of the first page.
Middel LED of printer starts to flash orange.
According to printer manual this means printer is waiting for data.
Data does not come (I waited for 10 minutes or so)
Sometimes the printer manages to finish the pages very very slowly.
Changing the hpij drivers to eg the GIMPprint ones does not help.
They print even slower...
