On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:44 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is this printer the HP Color Laserjet 2600n that started printing washed > out colors for no reason? > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:54 AM Michael Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:00 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, Michael Barnes wrote: > > > > > > > Everything was working fine until I changed routers about six months > > ago > > > > and had to change the ip address for the printer. Nothing related to > > the > > > > printer has worked right since. > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > I don't know how Mint does things so my thoughts might not apply. > > > > > > This looks like a local, LAN, issue. Do you have an /etc/hosts file or > > does > > > your router hand out local IP addresses via dhcpd? > > > > > > Can you ping the printer's IP address or hostname? > > > > > > Do you have an /etc/resolv.conf file? If so, what sayeth it? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Rich > > > > > > > It has nothing to do with the network. It is a problem with printing > from > > this computer. I can ping the printer and I can bring up the printer > > config/status web page. It is not communication. It is an hplip/cups > issue. > > > > Michael > > ________ > Yes, this is a continuation of the original issue. To recap: About six months or so ago I replaced my router, which required changing the IP address on my printer. After the IP address change, the print became washed out with a yellow/greenish tint. At first I thought it was a printer problem. Later, I discovered that it printed fine from my other computers. It was suggested several times it may be a driver problem. I had asked how to update or otherwise fix the driver problem, but got no replies. I got by with it for a while as the colors were not a big issue at the time. Recently, I had to change routers again, with IP address changes as well. >From several other sources I was recommended to visit a web page that discussed updating hplip. I followed the instructions there and installed the latest version of hplip. The installation removed the previous version of hplip and my previous printer information. Following the listed procedure, it progressed fine until it started the printer install. Once it discovered my printer, it said a special binary plugin was required and proceeded to install it. The installation was successful, but it again said the binary plugin was required. This repeated a number of times, plugin required, install plugin, plugin installation successful, plugin required, install... ad nauseum. Some Internet searches revealed many people had experienced this behavior over at least eight years, but the complaints were never answered or solved. So, I tried to use cups and skip hplip. The various instructions all say to go to localhost:631 for the web interface to cups. I verified cups is installed and running. When I bring up the web interface, the opening pages displays fine. However, any local link I click on simply goes to a page that says "Not Found". Remote links to forums, cups websites, etc. all work fine. There are a variety of help files, which I located at /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/. I can browse directly to that folder and display the various helpfiles directly, but not through the localhost:631 home page. The add printer command Adding Printers and Classes <http://localhost:631/admin>(localhost:631/Admin) also says not found. Now, neither hplip nor cups seem to be able to add my printer and I cannot print at all from this computer. I think my next step might be to try to remove hplip completely and reinstall cups and go that route. My other two Mint computers do not seem to have hplip installed but only use cups and they print just fine. We'll see. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
