A heartfelt thanks to all who have taken the time to reply to my
original plea for help.
Before I saw any of them, I had already received a reply from the
Linuxprinting.org forum suggesting that I add an option to the 'make'
command ("---disable-network-build"), which I assume disables network
printing. I did this with:
./configure ---disable-network-build
This seems to have worked perfectly in that I got a different output
with no error message. It configured a 'make'-file and I did the
make-install procedure, which did a very, very long configuration that
resulted in (presumably) all the drivers in the unpacked HPLIP 1.6.7
tarball being properly installed. I went in and selected the driver
for the HPclj2605 and thought I was on my way to printing magic.
Unfortunately, however, that hasn't happened.
I've tried changing the usb laser ports in case I had it set for the
wrong one, because the system told me several times when I've tried to
print from Open Office that it was actually printing. Yet nothing
happens. ONCE---and only once---I got it to print correctly from a
new, untitled one-line document I made up just to test it: "The rain
in Spain falls mainly in the plain." It even got the font I assigned
correct.
Otherwise, zilch, except for nonspecific 'error message' from
established (named) documents in Open Office.
I thought this might be an Open Office 2.0 problem, so I tried
printing from a plain text document in KATE where I got the following,
detailled 'error message':
"A print error occurred. Error message received from system:
cupsdoprint -P 'HPclj2605dn' -J 'Untitled' -H 'localhost:631' -U
'[my name]'-o 'copies=1 [jobpriority=1]
multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies
orientation-requested=3' 'tmp/kde-[my name]/kdeprint_q2qQdbou[/7LXGUKxB]':
execution failed with message:
client-error-not-possible"
What's this "job priority 50" setting business that seems to come
with the system??? In KATE's system options I changed the priority to
1 and still got the same print-error message, except for the bracketed
supplements or variants in lines 3 and 5.
A check of the CUPS settings shows the following information:
host: local host
port: 631
user: [me]
driver: "HPclj2605 Postscript (recommended)"
URI: ipp://linux-p9wc:631/rpinters/HPclj2605dn
device: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
I tried also to print a Web page from Opera 9.1, and the system again
gave an icon whose caption claimed it was "generating data" and then
"printing",
but, once again, nothing happened at the printer end (no flashing
light, nothing).
One strange thing the printer has done several times without any
apparent action on my part: it's spent several minutes "calibrating",
and I have no idea what that means or what was going on except a lot
of noise came from it. No read-out explained what it had supposedly
achieved.
I bought an HP printer <I>despite<I/> misgivings about HP's Linux
support because it was supposed to be the <I.<U>safe<U/><I/> option.
I'm beginning to be sorry. This should be simple and it isn't, despite
HP's claim of some kind of close working relationship with
Novell/SuSE. They're going to have to come up with something
simpler and more efficacious than this for SOHO users, who have to be
their own Linux "administrators", even if they're not techies.
So, do I need to do some kind of CUPS configuration, 'cause I honestly
can't think of what else would be involved in these problems, IF they
are SOFTWARE-related in origin? [Here, maybe I should also point out
that my computer has USB 1.1, not 2, in case that's relevant.]
Thanks again, everybody.
Rex Bachmann
On 9/1/06, Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Aug 31 13:23 Rex Bachmann wrote (shortened):
> > I just bought an HP color laserjet 2605dn printer
> ...
> > I use SuSE Linux 10.1 on X86.
>
> As far as I know this is a PostScript printer.
> Therefore you don't need any special driver but only the
> plain PPD file for this printer, see our online manual:
> /usr/share/doc/manual/suselinux-manual_en/manual/sec.drucken.prob.html
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 11.7.2. No Suitable PPD File Available for a PostScript Printer
>
> If the manufacturer-PPDs package does not contain any suitable PPD file
> for a PostScript printer, it should be possible to use the PPD file
> from the driver CD of the printer manufacturer or download a suitable
> PPD file from the Web page of the printer manufacturer.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> or see our support database:
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
>
> For example you can download the PPD from
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2605
> (go to "custom PPD").
>
> Then either use "lpadmin" to set up the queue directly
> or use YaST and choose something like "add PPD to database" in YaST.
>
>
> HPLIP 1.6.7 packages built for Suse Linux 10.1
> for 32-bit Intel compatible (i586) and for 64-bit AMD (x86_64)
> are available for testing (and only for testing) at
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/hplip/10.1/
>
> There are incompatibilities with our official HPLIP
> packages in Suse Linux 10.1.
> Be prepared that your existing configuration may no longer work
> with the new packages and/or that there may be no YaST support
> for the new packages, see for example
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=184798
>
> Note the "unsupported" and read the README:
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/hplip/10.1/RPMS/README
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
>
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