On 09/06/2013 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: > Doug, > I just had a similar thing happen to my HP Laserjet 4050tn. It was very > slow getting the pages out. I was using the CUPS Postscript driver and > isolated the problem to the printer. Cups showed the document sent and > completed as far as it was concerned, but the printer LED was still > flashing and after 30 minutes, still had not printed even the first > page. I discovered changing the CUPS driver from Postscript to the HP > PCL3 driver made it work fine. Now pages print within seconds of > clicking on Print.
/snip/ > > > On 09/06/2013 04:16 PM, Doug wrote: >> I have an HP LaserJet 2200dn, networked with 3 computers--one normally >> running Windows 7 and two normally running PCLOS. From Linux, when >> I send it something to print, sometimes--not always--the busy light will >> start to flash, and then it may print a couple hours, or a day later, or >> never. Other times it will print right away. Does anyone >> reading here know of a way to "tickle" it to make it print what it's >> sitting on? (Other times, it prints right away.) /snip/ Well now I have a couple of weeks experience with the suggestion. That was the cure, my friend. Changed the driver to HP PCL3 and the printer prints within 4 or 5 flashes of the ready light, all the time. Thank you! --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
