[SLUG] Printer problem in Ubuntu

[Heracles]

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Hi All,

I have this printer attached to my computer via USB. Using Ubuntu 10.10
it worked fine.

I have now installed 11.04 and the only way I can get it to work is to
completely remove it each time I start my PC and reinstall it (including
downloading a fresh copy of the drivers from HP). It will then work fine
until my computer is restarted. Any clues would be appreciated.

Heracles
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[SLUG] Printer Suggestion

[elliott-brennan]

Hi all,

I want to print some DVDs and am thinking of
buying a  Canon PIXMA iP4700 printer which will
print directly to the type of DVDs which have
printable labels.

The Canon site lists Linux drivers - which is one
of the reasons I'm considering this printer :))

However, I've yet to see the quality of output and
am wondering if anyone has any experience with
these types of devices.

Many thanks for any information or recommendations
provided.

(I'm not looking at hundreds of DVDs so commercial
printers are not economic options)

Regards,

Patrick


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[SLUG] Printer problem ubuntu/kubuntu 9.X and 10.x

[j blrown]

I have an old Canon BJ230 ( which takes A3 paper, hence the reason for
keeping it) that works fine under Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.x.

It is a parallel Serial port printer that I have connected to my PC by
way of a serial-to-usb converter as the PC doesnt have a serial port.

No setup problems with Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.x versions, but none of the
newer Ubuntu/Kubuntu versions 9.x or 100.x even see it.

Ideas/suggestions please, other than getting a Serial Port card.

Cant find anything by Googling or checking Forums.

Thanks in advance

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Re: [SLUG] Printer problem

[Glen Turner]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:23 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The printer is a Lexmark c532dn and I'm runninf Gutsy G on a laptop.
> 
> I'd like to connent it to a network, but the installation programs I've
> consulted don't mention it.
> 
> Someone suggested CUPS.
> 
> Has anyone any experience with this model?

Looking at the specs it is a fairly standard PostScript
printer with a ethernet port.


ATTACH THE PRINTER, GIVE IT A NAME AND ADDRESS

The first thing to do is to plug it into the ethernet.
Your DHCP server will give it an address and print its
ethernet MAC address in the log file.

DHCPDISCOVER from 00:12:34:12:34:56 via eth0

Since it's useful for printers to have a fixed name
enter one in /etc/dhcpd.conf

host lexmark-c523dn-1 {
  hardware ethernet 00:12:34:12:34:56;
  option host-name "lexmark-c523dn-1";
  option domain-name "printers.example.edu.au";
  ddns-hostname "lexmark-c523dn-1";
  ddns-domainname "printers.example.edu.au";
}

If you don't run Dynamic DNS then do it the old fashioned
way by giving it a fixed IP address in DHCP

host lexmark-c523dn-1 {
  hardware ethernet 00:12:34:12:34:56;
  option host-name "lexmark-c523dn-1";
  option domain-name "printers.example.edu.au";
  fixed-address 1.2.3.4;
}

and manually updating your DNS zones

  lexmark-c523dn-1.printers.example.edu.au. IN A 1.2.3.4
  in-addr.arpa.4.3.2.1. IN PTR lexmark-c523dn-1.printers.example.edu.au.

You might want to add 
  option ntp-servers 1.2.3.1;
  option log-servers 1.2.3.2;
as this will put the right time on the printer and send any messages
to your site's syslog server so you can see what happened when things
go wrong.

Now restart the printer and it will pick up its new address
and name.

Although this is a lot of messing about, avoiding configuring the
IP address onto the printer manually is well worth the hassle.
Using DHCP as widely as possible makes network changes later
on much more simple. Using DHCP with DDNS makes life very,
very simple.


CONFIGURE PRINT QUEUE

Configure the printer into CUPS. There's some nice GUIs for
this.  I really recommend using the GUI interface, then
checking the configuration file afterwards.  You see
something like this in /etc/cups/printers.conf


Info Lexmark C532dn colour laser printer
Location Room 101
DeviceURI ipp://lexmark-c523dn-1.printers.example.edu.au/ipp/port1
...


I really recommend using the GUI interface, then checking the
configuration file afterwards.

If the printer isn't in the GUI then select the Generic Postscript
option and say you have a .PPD file. A PPD is a printer description
file and it tells CUPS and other programs about the printer's
capabilities.

Look on linuxprinting.org for a PPD file. If there isn't one then
look on the CD that came with the printer and look for a .PPD file
there. You may need to use cabextract or unshield to explode
installer data files. Some Windows PostScript drivers use PPD
files, so there will be one somewhere.

Linux has excellent support for PostScript printers. You'll be
very pleased with the results.


PRINTERS FOR SMALL BUSINESS

If you have an office, rather than just one computer, then set
up a VLAN just for printers, say VLAN 10 with addresses 10.10.10.*/24.
Put an interface of the CUPS server on this VLAN and another interface
of that server on the routed network of your office.  Now users
can only see the CUPS queues -- this is a good thing.

The CUPS server will advertise all the printers it knows of, and
Linux and MacOS X users need no configuration to use the printer.

You can gateway CUPS into Samba.  Do this at the CUPS server.
The Samba server can contain the Windows printer drivers too,
so visitors with Windows machines can easily use your printer
too.

The printers cannot be contacted directly from the office network
or from the Internet. This means you don't need to worry if
the printer software has a vulnerability (and a lot of then do).
The CUPS server is acting as an application-specific firewall
for the printers.

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[SLUG] Printer problem

[wbennett]

The printer is a Lexmark c532dn and I'm runninf Gutsy G on a laptop.

I'd like to connent it to a network, but the installation programs I've
consulted don't mention it.

Someone suggested CUPS.

Has anyone any experience with this model?

Regards,

Bill Bennett.
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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Sebastian Spiess]

re music player.

have a look at http://www.cowonglobal.com/ they have very nice players, most of 'em support ogg and/or flac, no idea about 
the price.


I read good things about some trekstore players but have bad experience with 
linux support on my trekstore i.Beat joy 2.0.
Trekstor Vibez 12GB has ogg support
Trekstor i.Beat organix FM 1GB has NO ogg support... so look at the details :-)


seb

gav wrote:

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Ben]

On 9/21/07, gav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
> ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

I bought a Samsung YP-U2 from JB Hifi. They have them on special at
$58 at the moment (at least at the Hornsby store)
1GB. Claims to support OGG, I've only used MP3s with it so far.

I just play a white noise track for help powernapping, so I have no
idea if the interface is much good for navigating songs or if the
sound quality is much good, but I did find it a little slow moving
through tracks - (about one second to skip tracks). It comes preloaded
with two demo songs and they might let you copy a song off your laptop
if you want to try it in store.

A little larger than some of the competition, they are about the size
of a standard cigarette lighter. I picked this model because it was
cheap and has an integrated USB plug so it would charge of USB. It
doubles as a flash drive so Linux compatibility is fine.

Samsung product page:
http://tinyurl.com/ypyf42

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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Sebastian Spiess]

re music player.

have a look at http://www.cowonglobal.com/ they have very nice players, most of 'em support ogg and/or flac, no idea about 
the price.


I read good things about some trekstore players but have bad experience with 
linux support on my trekstore i.Beat joy 2.0.
Trekstor Vibez 12GB has ogg support
Trekstor i.Beat organix FM 1GB has NO ogg support... so look at the details :-)


seb

gav wrote:

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav



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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Andrew Swinn]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:48 +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really 
> silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they 
> claimed it was because there were different types of parallel 
> interfaces, even well after DB25 parallel connectors became fully 
> standardized.  I can't believe they're still pulling this ruse when 
> EVERY computer in the last 4-5 (6-8?) years has USB.

Apparently the reason they get away with this is because these
multifunction devices are considered 'standalone' machines. They don't
need to be connected to a PC to be useful. Just shop around for the usb
cable and chances are you will find one cheaper than the one offered at
printer sale time.

Cheers,

Andrew S



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Ogg Players Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Marghanita da Cruz]

gav wrote:


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?


There are a few audio formats - I am not an audiophile but, I think there are 
FLACphiles.


More about Ogg


List of Ogg/Vorbis players


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Jeremy Portzer]

Glen Turner wrote:


There are a lot of "personal laser printers" out there, the B&W
models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy.  You are
looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use
one a year in a household with three people printing uni and
school assignments. Beware that some printers come with a
half-full toner and no USB cable.


You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really 
silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they 
claimed it was because there were different types of parallel 
interfaces, even well after DB25 parallel connectors became fully 
standardized.  I can't believe they're still pulling this ruse when 
EVERY computer in the last 4-5 (6-8?) years has USB.


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Rodger Dean]

Hi Gav,

The brother HL-2040 is quite cheap. Actually cheaper than the 
consumables. Is great for b/w printing. Is a basic laser printer.Some 
places are selling it for $99. A new drum costs $129

Drivers available: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

Regards

Rodger

gav wrote:

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav

  


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Glen Turner]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:58 +1000, gav wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
> to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 

There are a lot of "personal laser printers" out there, the B&W
models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy.  You are
looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use
one a year in a household with three people printing uni and
school assignments. Beware that some printers come with a
half-full toner and no USB cable.

Linux compatibility is best solved by taking your laptop in and
testing. If it works out of the box with your distro then good.
If it doesn't then avoid a world of pain and select another
printer.


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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, gav wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
> to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 

You can have a cheap printer or cheap ink, rarely both.  I'd go for the 
cheap ink, expensive printer if I were you!

I've had great success buying used HP laser printers with JetDirect 
cards from eBay.  This means you just plug them into the network and 
they Just Work.  Being lasers, they're incredibly cheap to run, 
unlike inkjets with their $60 for 3ml ink cartridges.  The one I've got 
right now has a duplexer and cost me $50!

Otherwise, try:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters

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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Heracles]

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Not sure about what you mean by cheap. Small Lasers are quite cheap
these days. I have an old Lexmark Optra E312L that works perfectly for
me. A quick on the Linux Printing website would be of assistance.
Try:
"www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters"

Heracles

gav wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
> to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 
> 
> Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
> ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gav
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Re: [SLUG] Printer

[Dean Hamstead]

*pedantic*

technically ogg is just an envelope, its vorgis you are after

*endpedantic*

dont go past lexmarks from aldi, they are laser and way cheap.
they work quite well in linux (look for a penguin on the side)

i wouldnt (i dont infact) go past ipods for personal audio, however
i use the AAC format rather than mp3. it is smaller for the same
apparent quality and supposedly uses less power to play.

Dean

gav wrote:

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 


Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav



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[SLUG] Printer

[gav]

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts )
to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. 

Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking
ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ?

Thanks,
Gav

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[SLUG] Printer problem

[Alan L Tyree]

Hi,
I accidently (!) removed my working printer from the printer dialog on
Debian Etch with Gnome. I'm trying to re-establish it.

I'm getting the following messages in syslog:

Jul  5 09:35:08 windy python: [4215] error: Unable to set locale.
Jul  5 09:35:08 windy kernel: ppdev0: registered pardevice
Jul  5 09:35:08 windy kernel: ppdev0: negotiated back to compatibility
mode because user-space forgot Jul  5 09:35:08 windy kernel: ppdev0:
unregistered pardevice


Can anybody give me a clue as to what I should do?

Many thanks,
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Re: [SLUG] Printer colour matching

[jam]

On Monday 05 March 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do you people do colour matching?
>
> It seems to me there are three different bits to worry about, when
> trying to print a file.
>   -- the colours in the file
>   -- the colours as displayed on the screen (e.g., by ImageMagick or
> the Gimp)
>   -- the colours as printed.
>
> What do I have to do to my system to be sure that
>  -- the colours I see on the screen are what's really in the file?
>     Different monitors look different, even if they're supposed to have
>     the same Colour Temperature.  Without this, one can't easily
>     adjust colour balance, etc., and have the result what one wants.
>  -- the colours I get on the printout match what's in the file?
>
> If it makes any difference, I'm using one of a Xerox 8200DP printer,
> an HP Laserjet 4650, and an Epson Stylus Photo 720.  The first two
> talk PostScript directly; the latter goes via Ghostscript (which has
> buttons and knobs for tuning the colour; but I'm thinking of retiring
> the inkjet printer --- it's too expensive to run, takes forever to
> print anything, only produces good results on coated paper, and the
> prints it produces are fragile --- touch them with a wet finger and
> they run).  The same file looks different printed on the three
> printers -- the inkjet looks bluer than the others; the Xerox looks
> more orange.
>
>
> So,  suggestions for tuning all this stuff, please!  I'm using Debian
> unstable on AMD64, X86, SPARC and IA64, and my wife's using a powermac
> running MacOSX.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to scan a picture off a slide, adjust the
> result and send it to the printer with LPR and get something that's almost
> identical to the original; and send the resulting tiff or jpeg to a
> friend and have his printer likewise produce something almost
> identical to the original.

This is very hard and
very expensive (color refs cost $100s to $1000s)

The official gimp book gives a chapter to the topic and a poor mans howto:

Product manufacturers are very hung up on colours being 'right' so get a 
commercial Red a green and a blue product.

You can get web photos of the product (the file)
get samples from the product (the reference)

now adjust the screen (file to match the reference)
then adjust the print to match the reference

Using a bunch of el-cheapo 17" CRT monitors I could not achieve correct 
gamma/brightness/contrast. It did work on an up-end sony ($2500) and my LCD 
monitors are good enough to not bother

Spelunk gimp docs, this is where it's all hidden

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Re: [SLUG] Printer colour matching

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Peter Chubb wrote:

> How do you people do colour matching?

With great difficulty and much expensive kit.

> It seems to me there are three different bits to worry about, when
> trying to print a file.
>   -- the colours in the file
>   -- the colours as displayed on the screen (e.g., by ImageMagick or
>   the Gimp)
>   -- the colours as printed.

What's more, your monitor uses the RGB colourspace while your printer 
(ordinarily) uses the CMYK colourspace.

> What do I have to do to my system to be sure that
>  -- the colours I see on the screen are what's really in the file?
> Different monitors look different, even if they're supposed to have
> the same Colour Temperature.  Without this, one can't easily
> adjust colour balance, etc., and have the result what one wants.
>  -- the colours I get on the printout match what's in the file?

You need to calibrate your monitors, then calibrate your printer (which 
should already have a calibration profile supplied) then supply both 
profiles to the printer.

> So,  suggestions for tuning all this stuff, please!  I'm using Debian
> unstable on AMD64, X86, SPARC and IA64, and my wife's using a powermac
> running MacOSX.

Seriously, use Lucy's Mac and Photoshop.  I'm not sure how well GIMP et 
al are at the calibration stuff these days, but I suspect it's a world 
of pain.

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[SLUG] Printer colour matching

[Peter Chubb]

How do you people do colour matching?

It seems to me there are three different bits to worry about, when
trying to print a file.
  -- the colours in the file
  -- the colours as displayed on the screen (e.g., by ImageMagick or
the Gimp)
  -- the colours as printed.

What do I have to do to my system to be sure that
 -- the colours I see on the screen are what's really in the file?
Different monitors look different, even if they're supposed to have
the same Colour Temperature.  Without this, one can't easily
adjust colour balance, etc., and have the result what one wants.
 -- the colours I get on the printout match what's in the file?

If it makes any difference, I'm using one of a Xerox 8200DP printer,
an HP Laserjet 4650, and an Epson Stylus Photo 720.  The first two
talk PostScript directly; the latter goes via Ghostscript (which has
buttons and knobs for tuning the colour; but I'm thinking of retiring
the inkjet printer --- it's too expensive to run, takes forever to
print anything, only produces good results on coated paper, and the
prints it produces are fragile --- touch them with a wet finger and
they run).  The same file looks different printed on the three
printers -- the inkjet looks bluer than the others; the Xerox looks
more orange.


So,  suggestions for tuning all this stuff, please!  I'm using Debian
unstable on AMD64, X86, SPARC and IA64, and my wife's using a powermac
running MacOSX.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to scan a picture off a slide, adjust the
result and send it to the printer with LPR and get something that's almost
identical to the original; and send the resulting tiff or jpeg to a
friend and have his printer likewise produce something almost
identical to the original.

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Re: [SLUG] Printer problems

[Richard Neal]

I used to have a HP LaserJet 6L.

Its works fine with cups accept once it totally failed.

When you print the data light would flash on the printer then "nothing".

The fault in the end was nothing to do with cups it was a "corrupted font" making Ghostscript choke.

Theres a simple method of testing ghostscript to see if a font is causing a problem.

1. Open a Browser pick any web page (nothing too complex) print to file ie print to a postcript file not a pdf, call the file lest say test.ps, you can do this within Firefox or Konqueror.

2. cd  /path/to/file then type gs test.ps

If ghostscript has a problem it will now spit out an error.


On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:27 +1000, Shelagh Manton wrote:


I'm having serious diffculties with my printer, a parallel port
LaserJet-6L. I upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper recently and the printer no longer
works. The strange thing is that it worked a couple of weeks ago, using
the old set up. Then not locally, but through samba, and now not at all,
except of course when we hook up the printer to one of the windows
machines. But I can't use it through the network in ubuntu.







Regards

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[SLUG] Printer problems

[Shelagh Manton]

I'm having serious diffculties with my printer, a parallel port
LaserJet-6L. I upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper recently and the printer no longer
works. The strange thing is that it worked a couple of weeks ago, using
the old set up. Then not locally, but through samba, and now not at all,
except of course when we hook up the printer to one of the windows
machines. But I can't use it through the network in ubuntu.

I've looked in the errors_log and it said that local authorisation could
not be found.
 I looked this up on Google and came up with a launch pad reference which
 said it this problem was related to samba. The reference was in April and
 hopefully this was fixed before dapper was officially released. I got a
 working conf file from a friend and adapted it to my setup. No luck.

I uninstalled samba and cupsys and reinstalled it all again. Worse, now
apparently I can't install a printer at all. I'm going slightly mad! In
the Readme.debian it said that some .cert file could be found in
/var/spool/cups/ssl(sic) and symlinks in /etc/cups/ but these files do not
exist. Should they or is this only for some special setups?

Maybe, in the short term I should downgrade back to breezy. Is it
advisable to do this with just the print and samba system?

Shelagh 
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Re: [SLUG] printer drivers

[Richard]

I found this thread in a forum

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=188250

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:36 +1100, Paul Maloney wrote:


Hi all,
I am trying out Ubuntu for the first time and was wondering if anyone
can help me with printer drivers. I am using a Canon i560 printer and so
far I have been unable to install the correct drivers.
Thanking you in advance.
Paul





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Seen on Slashdot 30-09-2005





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[SLUG] printer drivers

[Paul Maloney]

Hi all,
I am trying out Ubuntu for the first time and was wondering if anyone
can help me with printer drivers. I am using a Canon i560 printer and so
far I have been unable to install the correct drivers.
Thanking you in advance.
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RE: [SLUG] Printer not detected

[Visser, Martin]

Ken,

I have a PSC 2510 which all went swimmingly on Ubuntu Hoary, though mine
has Ethernet. If you haven't already done so have a look at the good
doco at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php

There are support forum links from that site as well which might give be
able to give more direct help if you still have no joy. (Sorry I'm not a
printer guy so I don't' have any special cluesticks in this regard, it
all just worked for me)
  

Martin Visser, CISSP
Network and Security Consultant 
Consulting & Integration
Technology Solutions Group - HP Services

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recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete
the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the
information in it.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ken Caldwell
Sent: Friday, 23 September 2005 7:33 AM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] Printer not detected

'Morning All,
I have just acquired an HP PSC 1610 All-In-One printer and am having
trouble establishing communication between the computer and printer.

The computer is running Ubuntu "Breezy". The packages hplip, hplip-base,
hplip-data and hplip-ppds are all installed.

System > Administration > Printing tells me that the printer HP-PSC-1600
is ready but if I try to print a test page nothing happens.

>From the above tool I find

Ready: Open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds...

Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions I can try this evening
when I can get back to it?

cheers,
Ken


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[SLUG] Printer problem

[Leslie Katz]

Hello, Ken.

Please excuse what may be a very silly question. Have you tried to 
print anything other than the test page? When I set my printer up, it 
wouldn't print the test page either, but it happily printed the page 
with the "print test page" button on it (and anything else I've asked 
it to print since).


Best wishes,

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[SLUG] Printer not detected

[Ken Caldwell]

'Morning All,
I have just acquired an HP PSC 1610 All-In-One printer and am having
trouble establishing communication between the computer and printer.

The computer is running Ubuntu "Breezy". The packages hplip, hplip-base,
hplip-data and hplip-ppds are all installed.

System > Administration > Printing tells me that the printer HP-PSC-1600
is ready but if I try to print a test page nothing happens.

>From the above tool I find

Ready: Open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds...

Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions I can try this evening
when I can get back to it?

cheers,
Ken


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[SLUG] Printer not recognised

[Leslie Katz]

I have a dual boot computer (Fedora Core 3/Windows XP) with a printer 
attached to my parallel port. It works satisfactorily in Windows. The 
following is what I believe to be the relevant bit of what dmesg says 
when I boot up in Fedora (I've added the line numbers):


"1. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
2. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
3. parport0: Printer, OKI DATA CORP OKIPAGE 8z
4. Trying to free free DMA1
5. pnp: Device 00:0e disabled.
6. ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
7. ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
8. ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2044 buckets, 16352 max) - 272 bytes per 
conntracke100: eth0:  e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

9. pnp: Device 00:0e activated.
10. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
11. pnp: Device 00:0e disabled.
12. lp: driver loaded but no devices found"

At line 3, my printer's being referred to correctly, but by line 12, 
it's not being found.


Can anyone tell me what I should do to have my printer found?

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[SLUG] Printer

[John Gibbons]

Try Brother HL1430. Mine works a treat. It is one of the cheapest as well. I've 
installed several distros for fun and they all recognised it from their own 
supply of built in drivers.
John.
Hai
I was just wondering if anyone has recently bought a printer to run on
Linux. Im after a laser printer (nothing fancy) to works with the CUPS
print server. 

Yes I know there are websites that list printers that work with Linux
but some Ive found don't work that well or not at all, and some work
great.
So whats a good new laser printer thats just does black and white
prints.
Also while Im here whats a good three in one printer that people have
had experience buying and using with Linux lately.
Regards
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Re: [SLUG] Printer port

[scott]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17-03-2004 01:10:38 PM:

> Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed 
> another on a PCI 
> card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running 
> printconf shows no 
> printer devices.
> 
> How do I get the system to setup the new printer port as an lp device?
> 

What brand parallel port is it?
Check if its supported.
I don't know if this is true with parallel, but with serial some brands 
are(/were) not supported under Linux.
What happens if you say, cat /etc/printcap >/dev/lp0, does it print?

Cheers,

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Re: [SLUG] Printer port

[Edwin Humphries]

Yes, disabled in BIOS.

On 17 Mar 2004 at 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> Did you disable the "dead" printer port?
> you may have some an irq conflict
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another
> on a PCI
> card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running printconf
> shows no
> printer devices.
> 
> How do I get the system to setup the new printer port as an lp device?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Printer port

[kevin . saenz]

Did you disable the "dead" printer port?
you may have some an irq conflict




Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another
on a PCI
card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running printconf
shows no
printer devices.

How do I get the system to setup the new printer port as an lp device?





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[SLUG] Printer port

[Edwin Humphries]

Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another on a PCI 
card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running printconf shows no 
printer devices.

How do I get the system to setup the new printer port as an lp device?

Edwin Humphries,
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ironstone.com.au
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Fax: 02 4233 2299
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Re: [SLUG] Printer Question Again

[Mark Pearson]

Although I have not done this myself, it can be done with Cups. Have a 
look at
http://www.cups.org/sam.html#6_2

Lyle Chapman wrote:

We have a RH9 machine setup with two identical brother printers 
attached via USB and sharing the queue's across the network, is there 
an easy way to setup one queue but with two printers and then load 
share the printers, so if ones obviously busy it will transfer 
concurrent jobs from the queue to the next available printer.

all help is very much appreciated,

 

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[SLUG] Printer Question Again

[Lyle Chapman]

We have a RH9 machine setup with two identical brother printers 
attached via USB and sharing the queue's across the network, is there 
an easy way to setup one queue but with two printers and then load 
share the printers, so if ones obviously busy it will transfer 
concurrent jobs from the queue to the next available printer.

all help is very much appreciated,

Lyle Chapman

Pre-Press Supervisor
Torch Publishing Co.
47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia
612 9795 
http://www.torchpublishing.com.au
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Re: [SLUG] Printer Rip

[Terry Collins]

Lyle Chapman wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> We have proprietry RIP software for an outdated (and broken printer)
> and unfortunately the software will not run anything but this printer.
> We would like to save the expense and look at an open source option but
> I cannot seem to find any. Does anybody know of RIP software for
> printers in general.

curiosity question? software and printer?

Have you looked at ghostscript?

What printer(s) are you trying to run?
What functionality do you require?

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[SLUG] Printer Rip

[Lyle Chapman]

Can anyone help?

We have proprietry RIP software for an outdated (and broken printer) 
and unfortunately the software will not run anything but this printer. 
We would like to save the expense and look at an open source option but 
I cannot seem to find any. Does anybody know of RIP software for 
printers in general.

thanks to anyone with any help in this matter,


Lyle Chapman

Pre-Press Supervisor
Torch Publishing Co.
47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia
612 9795 
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Re: [SLUG] Printer recommendations?

[Malcolm V]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:52, Terry Collins wrote:

> I understand Epson sell head cleaning fluid that you run through them
> for occassions like these.

I soaked my (printers) head in warm water for a few minutes and that
seemed to do the trick.

Cheers,
Malcolm V.

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Re: [SLUG] Printer recommendations?

[Terry Collins]

Peter Chubb wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Our Epson photo 720 has just died (gunge in the printheads,
> from what I can tell), and it's cheaper to throw it away than to
> repair it...

I understand Epson sell head cleaning fluid that you run through them
for occassions like these.

..snip...


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[SLUG] Printer recommendations?

[Peter Chubb]

Hi,
Our Epson photo 720 has just died (gunge in the printheads,
from what I can tell), and it's cheaper to throw it away than to
repair it...

   So, I'm wondering:  Do the current generation of colour laser
printers do a good job when attached to Gimp of rendering
photo-quality output?  Or should I look for another epson inkjet?
I'd much rather a laser printer, other things le=being equal, because
they're much cheaper to run, they tend to be faster, the output is
more waterproof, etc., etc.

 I've been looking at the Lexmark C720, which claims 2400dpi
effective resolution (600dpi base resolution), and which comes
standard with a PostScript engine.  None of the local shops have one
to try out; what I want is to be able to take photo slides scanned at
2700dpi and produce A4 prints from them, that are at least magazine
(e.g., National Geographic) quality, preferably better.

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[SLUG] Printer setup

[Robert Martinovic]

Hey,

I am trying to setup a postscript laser and am not getting very far. I
have tried to setup /etc/printcap using both magicfilter and
apsfilter, and when I send a job, nothing happens.

This is on a home lan, using debian.

One thing I have noticed: I tried using a program called webmin, under
'printer configuration', it had various settings for printing. Two of
these were:
  1. Accepting requests
  2. Printing enabled

Both of these were set to no, and regardless of how many times I
clicked yes, the changes were not saved as such.

Please, any suggestions would be welcome

Cheers,

Rob

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#   @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88
#
# This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig.
#
lp|lex|Lexmark Optra M410:\
:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lex:rm=192.168.1.3:rp=lex:lpr_bounce:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/ps600-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

Re: [SLUG] Printer problem

[Heracles]

Alister Waller wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Redhat 6.2
> 
> I am using LPR to print.
> 
> If I send a print job to remote printer on a PC running a LP daemon the
> print job goes through fine. If I try and print to the local printer
> attached to the server by a parallel cable 9 times out of 10 the job seems
> to sit in the queue until I turn the printer off and on and then it prints.
> 
> This is not specific to one system, I have 3 Linux machines all having the
> same problem.
> 
> The printers are OKI Microlines in all cases.
> 
> If I move one of the printers to a pc and print remotely then it prints
> fine.
> 
> I just need some pointers as to what could be causing this and what to look
> for or change etc.

This is a common problem with windoze as well. It is occasionally caused
by an incompatibility between the machine settings and the printer. eg.
the machine set for "a4" and the printer expecting "letter". 

However, the most common cause of this problem is the parallel cable.
Some printer cables are designed to be bidirectional and some are not.
Try using a new parrallel printer cable.

Stay well and happy
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[SLUG] Printer problem

[Alister Waller]

Hi,

Redhat 6.2

I am using LPR to print.

If I send a print job to remote printer on a PC running a LP daemon the
print job goes through fine. If I try and print to the local printer
attached to the server by a parallel cable 9 times out of 10 the job seems
to sit in the queue until I turn the printer off and on and then it prints.

This is not specific to one system, I have 3 Linux machines all having the
same problem.

The printers are OKI Microlines in all cases.

If I move one of the printers to a pc and print remotely then it prints
fine.

I just need some pointers as to what could be causing this and what to look
for or change etc.

regards


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[SLUG] Printer question

[dmgray]

I have an NT 4.0 workstation box on a network with two Linux boxes. One of
the Linux boxes has a printer I want to be able to use from the NT
box. When I try to add the printer from the control panel, it finds the
printer (Samba is running on one of the machines) but tells me there is no
"...suitable NULL printer driver..." available.

I can print to this printer with either of the Linux boxes but don't know
what I should do to set it up for the NT box.

Hope someone can help.

Thanks,

Dennis


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[SLUG] printer help

[Michael]

What documents do people recommend I read in an attempt to setup a HP
LaserJet 6L laser printer on my linux machine and have it shared out to my
internal network via samba.

Thanks
Michael Fox



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Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

[Michael Lake]

Hi Guys,

OK got the printer working. The problem IS, AFAICT, the driver. At work
the HP 1100 I have setup fine but that was 2 years ago. This 1100 is a
new which I have borrowed and is pretty much the same externally. 

Remember I mentioned that all the blank lines of my letter in the
Postscript failed to appear in the output but the test page from the
apsfilterconfig printed fine. Reason was that the test page is an image!
If I print a Postscript page of my own with small images and text mixed
the images came out fine, ie correct scale, but all blank lines in text
is suppressed. Ie the driver is not handling any lines with just a
carriage return.

I gave up on the driver named "laserjet" and tried other "laser"
drivers. laserjet3 was fine except all blank lines at the top disappear.
Eventually laserjet4 works fine. Yes an 1100 is not a laserjet4 but this
driver works fine and at 600dpi.

So I don't know what has happened here but I suspect that HP may have
changed something so that the old driver no longer works?

Thanks for the many suggestions.

Mike
PS. The print job was the 75 page 'Journal of the Royal Society of NSW'
to go to the printers this week. I'm now the Editor/Typesetter; the last
issue was done in Framemaker, this issue it's done in LaTeX :-)

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Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

[Michael Lake]

Hi All,

Well CUPS is downloaded and compiled fine. Haven't installed it yet and
I'll wait till all other leads are exhausted. Also downloaded latest
ghostscript. Still buggered as to why the output has removed all the
blank lines from the postscript. 
I notice that the CUPS site says that its free driver for the laserjet
does not make full use of the laserjets abilities but its $ one does.
Ummm :-( 

> Did you know printtool is avaliable on debian?
> apt-get install printtool

Ah excelent. I have just got ppp connecting to my ISP a few hours ago
(my ISP was looking for username: not login: in chat) and will try this
apt-get-which-does-all-things-wonderful for the 1st time.

Thanks all.

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Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

[Michael Lake]

Dave Kempe wrote:
> for most printing problems I'm suggesting CUPS. Works nicely with these
> printers.
Im downloading CUPS now to have a look at it but I should solve the
problem too :-)
Also CUPS has its own modified version of gs5.5 and im loath to do much
upgrading when I have 75 page Journal to print out for the printers by
tuesdsay.

When I replaced my own test.ps file for the apsfilter one it didn't
print correctly. All lines were at the top. Using the apsfilter test
page with a tiger on it and a piccy of the developer (I presume) it went
fine. gv shows my test file as looking fine.

The printcap has the correct input filter ie
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/laserjet-a4-auto-mono-600:\ 

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Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

[Dave Kempe]

Mike,
for most printing problems I'm suggesting CUPS. Works nicely with these 
printers.
On debian, apt-cache seach cups.
Its HP laserjet driver that comes with it works great for 1100s from what ive 
seen.
Hope that helps :)

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[SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

[Michael Lake]

Hi All,

I have a HP laerjet 1100 for the w/end to do some urgent printing on and
can't get it working. At work I got one working fine by using RedHat's
printtool. Here I have not had any luck with Debian on the Alpha or SUSE
on Intel.

OK. On Debian I used apsfilterconfig and it went fine. Driver=laserjet
device=lp0 etc The test page printed fine. ascii files catted to lp
print OK. But a ps page which should be a letter prints with all the
lines at the top ie not postscript code but the correct lines for the
letter appear but with no blank likes between them.

Moved printer to the SUSE box on Intel. Yast invokes apsfilterconfig
too. Generates same printcap file as on Debian - fine. Again ps prints
all lines at the top of he page.

The /var/spool/lpd directories are all created fine, the apsfilter does
work and is in place because I can print from ghostview to a bubble jet
10e with no probs. This was setup using the same tool. The printcap
entry is below.  

If I try to print with "lpr -Plp2 test.ps"  I get all the lines at the
top.

Clearly the fact that I get same prob on Debian and SUSE indicates its
prob something simple. The printing-HOWTO does not cover what to do if
ones get errors like this.


#   Warning: Configured for apsfilter, do not edit the labels!
#apsfilter setup Sat Jan  6 12:57:03 EST 2001
#
ascii|lp1|laserjet-a4-ascii-mono-600|laserjet a4 ascii mono 600:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-ascii-mono-600:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-ascii-mono-600/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-ascii-mono-600/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/laserjet-a4-ascii-mono-600:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:
#
lp|lp2|laserjet-a4-auto-mono-600|laserjet a4 auto mono 600:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-auto-mono-600:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-auto-mono-600/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-auto-mono-600/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/laserjet-a4-auto-mono-600:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:
#
raw|lp3|laserjet-a4-raw|laserjet a4 raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet-a4-raw/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/laserjet-a4-raw:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:

# I can print to this printer with no problems using lpr -Pbj10e

#
bj10e|lp5|bj10e-a4-auto-mono-360|bj10e a4 auto mono 360:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bj10e-a4-auto-mono-360:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/bj10e-a4-auto-mono-360/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/bj10e-a4-auto-mono-360/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/bj10e-a4-auto-mono-360:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:   

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Re: [SLUG] Printer problems

[Howard Lowndes]

Have you use the Linux printtool  to set up the printers?

Could you post your /etc/printcap file?

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Adrian wrote:

> I have a two problem.
> 
> 1/I don't know much about redhat or Linux.
> 
> 2/Until recently, I was running samba with one parallel printer port with a
> Lexmark Optra E+ on it.  It has been working very well.  No complaints.
> 
>   I have installed a second parallel printer port card and have a HP Deskjet
> 400 connected to it and that's where thing went crazy.  I have read various
> books and documentation with know success.
> 
> Could somebody (with a lot of patient) help me sort thought this so I can
> print to two different printers via their respective parallel printer ports.
> 
> Regards
> Adrian
> 
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> 
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> Facsimile:  +61 (0)4 0720 5410
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> 
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Printer problems

[Terry Collins]

Adrian wrote:


> Could somebody (with a lot of patient) help me sort thought this so I can
> print to two different printers via their respective parallel printer ports.

That describes the list.
Post the error messages, your setup, the actual problems, etc to the
list.

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[SLUG] Printer problems

[Adrian]

I have a two problem.

1/  I don't know much about redhat or Linux.

2/  Until recently, I was running samba with one parallel printer port with a
Lexmark Optra E+ on it.  It has been working very well.  No complaints.

I have installed a second parallel printer port card and have a HP Deskjet
400 connected to it and that's where thing went crazy.  I have read various
books and documentation with know success.

Could somebody (with a lot of patient) help me sort thought this so I can
print to two different printers via their respective parallel printer ports.

Regards
Adrian

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