Hashimoto Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Dear fellow users, Help needed with printing! Background: Installed MDK10.0 + all updates up till today (23.9) to my fathers PC. A printer HPLJ 1005 was on and connected during install. It got detected (Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0, foomatic/foo2zjs), but nothing prints. Now, I have never been printing in linux so I'm a bit confused and need some help in solving this problem. MCC: Configuring the printer does not seem to affect anything. Trying to print the test page brings up a window saying either: "..sent to printer... already printing" or " ... may take some time...". Nothing ever comes out of the printer. localhost:631 claims the printer is "idle, accepting jobs". Also I can see the printing queue. Clicking "restart the job" (or something) gives error "client-error-not-possible". And I can't do any administrative jobs: it asks me to login but does not accept su and/or su password . Absolutely frustrating! There is no dev/lp0. I guess it should be there if CUPS is directing print jobs there? Dev/printers is though. lpinfo -v gives: network socket network http network ipp network lpd direct canon:/dev/lp0 direct epson:/dev/lp0 direct parallel:/dev/lp0 direct pdf direct cups2pegg direct scsi direct usb:/dev/usblp0 direct usb:/dev/usblp1 direct usb:/dev/usblp2 direct usb:/dev/usblp3 direct usb:/dev/usblp4 direct usb:/dev/usblp5 direct usb:/dev/usblp6 direct usb:/dev/usblp7 direct usb:/dev/usblp8 direct usb:/dev/usblp9 direct usb:/dev/usblp10 direct usb:/dev/usblp11 direct usb:/dev/usblp12 direct usb:/dev/usblp13 direct usb:/dev/usblp14 direct usb:/dev/usblp15 So where to start? What else should I look for? How do I log in as admin in localhost:631? I admit I'm totally lost with this. Some complaint about user frienliness and menu entries (discussed somewhere else on this board, too): I just can't understand why all those different kinds of printer things get installed in system>configuration>printing: Install OKI.., Lexmark, Mtink etc. I mean, I havenever had a printer and they are still get installed there! And how do you think someone totally new to linux is going to figure out them all. Even I can't after having used linux for some time. It really isn't user friendly at all, just a bloody mess. If linux is ever going to conqueror some userbase it needs to get these more friendly No offence to anybody presonally! I'm just a bit frustrated and angry at the moment. Hashimoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 I had similar problemswhile installing a laser printer on USB. You don't way what the interface to the printer is, I assume it's parallel port? I think printerdrake is broken, like most of the drakes, at least that was the case with mine. I had to manually edit /etc/cups/printers.conf because it hada type in the URI start by making sure the uri points to wherever you believe the printer is mounted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 My Samsung laser printer stopped printing. I got the same reports you describe. I could not remove it except, finally, by going into the Control Centre. Having removed it, I reinstalled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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