c-clone Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Friends, What a relief to have my 2007.1 able to detect network printer hp 2600. During the detection, mandriva did prompt that it cant find the color driver. Then a black n white test page came out of the printer perfectly. Now when I try to print to this printer nothing happens. Why did the test page came out ok but not the document I want to print. Where to start? This is the second last item I need to solve to be independent of windoze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Open a browser and enter "localhost:631" . This is the CUPS print manager. Is the printer listed as active? Is it listed at all? Can you print a test from there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 During the detection, mandriva did prompt that it cant find the color driver. You also need to install the hplip package from the repos, if you haven't already done so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-clone Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 I used Konqueror to access "localhost:631". Cool. I'm impressed with this feature. My HP2600 network printer is listed on this page. Did a print test page before realising my network printer's 2month old black toner is out(i guess my 4 other mates print ebooks daily). Anyway got a new toner on friday, redo print test page and i get "usr/lib/cups/backend/samba failed" from http://localhost:631/printers . After installing hplip package from repos, retry to print test page. In the localhost:631 i got "unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...." More then five minutes now, still waiting.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Is it a shared resource or a true network printer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-clone Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 A true network printer I guess, the printer printer is attached directly to a LAN network. No PC has direct control over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 What is the controlling device of the network? Is it a Windows server, *nix server, or a router? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-clone Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Its a router. Got that one from the ICT dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Almost done with a thousand questions! :lol: Can you browse the printer by typing in the ip address? If you can, you might try configuring with the ip and port 6100. (I thnk!) http//:what.ever.the.ip:6100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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