On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: > >> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping > >> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest > >> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete > >> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, > >> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the > >> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like > >> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. > >> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try > >> that. > >> > >> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in > >> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at > >> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, > >> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, > >> currently out of ink, again. > >> > >> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI > >> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems > >> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer > >> hooked up then you may have to select something. > >> > >> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) > > > > That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime > > a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd > > delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. > > > > Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an > > unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better > > at suing Samsung than actually writing code.... > > For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've > had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used > cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one > day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took > less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I > did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I > know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No > telling what has been updated that they depend on. > > Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, > when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still > works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since. > So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see > what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ > > Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to > English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even > happier. o_O > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine. > > :-D Oooo, pretty colors too.
Same here. I use hp-setup to configure the printer once and then it "just works" without further thinking. (Apart from having to switch it on) I stopped using inkjet/deskjet/... printers years ago after having another one ruined by dried up ink. Currently happily using a laserprinter with a network-cable :) -- Joost
