On Saturday 10 August 2002 16:09, Alastair Scott wrote:
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> On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 4:17 pm, frame wrote:
> > How to get this working?
> > Drakconf->printer just hangs.
> > The kups frontend seems to be ok, but doesn't print any testpage.
> > Tried to access printer directly: echo "..." >> /dev/usb/lp0 - works.
> > Any suggestions?
>
> After eventually fruitful hacking around I think there's a big problem with
> some printer drivers and 9.0 beta 2, although it's difficult to see exactly
> what the problem is.
>
> I had a similar problem (nothing happening on print from a GUI) and worse
> (lpr didn't work; lpq showed nothing in the queue) with my USB Lexmark Z42,
> which worked perfectly with 8.2.
>
> When I ran printerdrake, first of all a new version of CUPS (4.2.2-pre 4)
> downloaded without warning (presumably because I'd set up a download source
> for Mandrake Cooker?); after about half an hour of playing with the options
> I got nowhere.
>
> So I changed the driver from:
>
> Lexmark Z42, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre4 [English]
>
> to
>
> Lexmark Z42, Foomatic + drv_z42
>
> and out came a perfect test page!
>
> So, if the HP has a similar Foomatic driver option, switch to that and try
> again.
>
> (You change the driver from the KDE Control Centre | System | Printing
> Manager; select the printer, then the Properties tab, then the Driver icon,
> then Change ... and, I hope, a list of options appears).
>
> Alastair
> - --
> Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
> http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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Hi,
thanks for the tip with foomatic, it works!
Seems that the printerdriver, which comes
with ESP Ghostscript is broken for HPD840C.
Increased debug level to see what's going on.
Just outputs some confusing stuff into /var/log/cups/error_log:
D [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] gs_il1_e.ps 10 1434768 137416 1421640 134992 true 592 3
<0>
D [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] END FONTDIR/ENCS 10 1434768 137568 1421640 134992 true
594 3 <0>
D [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] Unknown device: cups #### ??????????
E [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] PID 2713 stopped with status 1!
D [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] 0 %%EOF
D [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] Saw EOF!
E [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] No pages found!
E [10/Aug/2002:20:34:20 +0000] PID 2714 stopped with status 1!
Regards,
Frank.
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