On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Fred James <[email protected]>wrote:
> nathan w wrote: > > the hplip site says that this printer is supported in versions 0.95 or > > newer, and the current version of hplip is 3.11.5. ubuntu already has > > the 3.11 branch... it'd be a very outdated distro indeed that did not > > support this printer with the hplip package already in the repo. > > > > i vote for hardware issues, but ianape. > > > > > Still ... almost any Live CD distro should be able to recognize and > print to the printer ... which could therefore be a quick and cheap way > to rule out the computer software and thereby more or less confirm the > notion that the problem is in the printer (whether sw or hw). I am a > Mandriva user myself, but for Live CD I have liked Knoppix ... your > mileage may vary. > Regards > Fred James > > Thanks for all the replies. The printer is sitting not connected to any computer. It goes through the alignment test, where the carriage moves across the paper and a light shines down. I assume that this is locating the paper edge. It then goes back and forth a couple of times, then abruptly changes to self-test. After 10 or 20 more seconds it changes to Initializing, ejects the paper, then goes back to the alignment test with a request for loading paper. No ink appears on the paper. This endless loop gives me no opportunity to try anything other than power-off. This leads me to discount computer drivers, etc. as the issue. I lightly pressed each cartridge onto a wet cloth, indicating three colors/black. This leads me to think that they are not plugged. (Anybody here have a printer that uses #94 and #95 cartridges willing to try these?) The seller told me that the thing sat around unused for a couple of years, so bad cartridges is not out of the question. I paid $20, so I will not feel too bad if it remains broken. Spending $40+ for new cartridges will bring me to near 1/2 the cost of a new printer of some type with no guarantee that it will work. Not a reasonable risk in my mind. I may end of taking this thing apart far enough to see if there are puffy electrolytics around. Still of an open mind... -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
