On 07/07/2012 07:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Moreover the new printer entry in cups fails to print a test page (the > old, cups-installed, entry continues to work).
<sigh> Once again I forgot my number-one fallback move: I always delete all the existing printer devices after upgrading cups (or hplip) and run hp-setup to reinstall them. It has fixed many similar printing mysteries for me in the past. If in doubt, back up all of your cups configuration files first :)