I followed the gentoo printing guide to no avail - still having problems.
I have an HP LaserJet 4 Plus hooked up via the parallel port. I have parport,
parport-pc, IEE 1284 Transfer mode, and lp configured correctly in my kernel
configuration.
I did:
emerge cups
emerge foomatic
Weird behavior:
I (as root) cat test.txt ("Hello World:) > /dev/lp0. Though the command returns no
error, nothing happens. I keep doing it:
cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
All of these return NO errors, but nothing happens.
So I issue this command:
foomatic-configure -s cups -p 75104 -c /dev/lp0 -n HP -d ljet4
And get the following error message:
lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible
Could not set up/change the queue "HP"!
Then I set up cupsd:
rc-update add cupsd default
So I use mozilla to go to http://127.0.0.1:631, set up the printer with the following
settings:
Name: HP
Location: /dev/lp0
Description: HP LaserJet 4 Plus
Device: Parallel Port #1 (Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 4 Plus)
Make: HP
Model: HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)
So I print a test page and get:
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
So I print another test page. This time, nothing happens. I print another test
page... nothing happens. Etc...
So I go and look at the 'completed' jobs:
HP-11 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job
HP-12 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job
HP-13 (stdin) devios 93k aborted Restart Job
HP-14 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job
HP-15 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job
HP-16 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job
I can't seem to find any help on this anywhere. Any help would be greatly appeciated.
Research I've done to this point seems to suggest this is a gentoo problem - as if
some dependencey or config file entry is missing somewhere...
There are a lot of similar issues from gentoo users.
In any case, I just would like a working printer so I don't have to continue using
Microsoft products. I'd appreciate it if you could cc my email address on all
responses.
Thanks,
devi0s
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