Alan Grimes:
> I spent $450 for the most beautifulest printer ever made.
That is not true, because I own the most beautiful printer:)
> Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer.
You didn't write what model, hard to help you then.
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What I do is, well it is just me I guess:
0, print out a test page from the printers menu
1, check the printers network config and ping the printer
2, put the printer in postscript mode/emulation and send something
simple as to it using lpr:
%A4: 210 297mm
%72 per tum, 72/25.4 per mm
/a 72 25.4 div def
a a scale
0.1 setlinewidth
0 3 297 { 0 exch moveto 210 0 rlineto stroke } for
0 3 210 { 0 moveto 0 297 rlineto stroke } for
showpage
3, if it can print postscript via lpr, then keep doing that and ignore
cups.
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What messes things up is people pressing the wifi-button (if there is
one) while on cable, which messes up the network config.
If it works with MS-Windows, it can be autodetect (udns, avahi) is
missing on your linux box. I usually set printers to fixed ip-address
and add it to the local dns for easy access, so I shut down any udns
thing; I like a quiet network.
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
