Hi,
After upgrading to Squeeze my printing system has broken. I want to ask on here
because in the archives it looks like several people have had the same problem
with CUPS and different USB connected printers, but nobody has ever posted a
solution. So I'm hoping a printer genius out there knows what to do!
I have an HP Laserjet
4M+ connected to my computer on a USB port. On the printer, the USB
cable goes into a USB-to-parallel adaptor on the printer's parallel
port. It worked fine with Wheezy. Now, I can only print one job. After
that I have to unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, and then I have to to
go to the CUPS web interface at localhost:631 where it shows that the printer
is paused. So then I have to select "resume" and finally then the next
job will print. I have to do this every time I want to print something!
Please
let me
know what I should try doing. I have been doing a lot of searches and it
seems that some people have it but there does not seem to be any
answers. Some of the problems go back to 2005, so this must be a
recurring error. When I look at the CUPS web interface,
it always says that there's a percentage of the job that's printed, but
not the whole thing. Or other times it says "Rendering completed":
HP_LaserJet_4_Plus-65 Unknown Withheld 37k 1 processing
since
Tue 02 Jul 2013 01:21:04 PM EDT
"Rendering completed"
The status of the printer is "(Processing, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared)"
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0557:2006 ATEN International Co., Ltd UC-1284B Printer
Port
#
Now at this point I can unplug the USB cable, plug back in, and the status
changes: "(Paused, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared)"
I click "Resume printer" on the web interface, and away she goes.
But the device ID has changed:
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 012: ID 0557:2006 ATEN International Co., Ltd UC-1284B Printer
Port
#
I have the usblp module blacklisted. I've tried several lpadmin commands that
have been suggested in the archives:
lpadmin -p HP_LaserJet_4_Plus -o usb-no-reattach-default=true
lpadmin -p HP_LaserJet_4_Plus -o usb-unidir-default=true
None of these things seem to work. There must be a simple answer somewhere...
