Re: CUPS/HP/lp printer errors

[Laura Rudmin]

 nate wrote:

Laura Rudmin said:

Hi,
I have a Sid system with KDE 3.0, and CUPS with lp, tied to a HP
Deskjet 1120C.

when you print a test page from cups does it print out OK ? You
can access the admin interface from http://localhost:631

Okay, the answer to this is yes and no, and may have the solution -- but I don't understand it
yet.

If I go to :start menu:preferences:system:printing manager
[that's menus in KDE, not directories in Linux]

then hit "test print", I get junk. I click on my HP Deskjet printer, and go over to "instances", I find that there is a "default" option that is essentially junk, with the standard double-light flash and all . If I click "set as default" on another option, such as cRET color, then I can successfully print a test print. But when I then try to delete the default, I find that it doesn't work. It says it can't.

Also possibly related to all this, things are fine on my account. But on another user account, if she tries to load the printing manager, it comes up three times with an error "There was an error loading kdeprint_lpd. Diagnostic is:" and that's all. But there is no printer listed at all, then. I wonder if some of our installation files are corrupted.

do you have the cups version of lp installed ? does printing from
apps such as mozilla, or openoffice work?

Printing from Koffice works more often than not, printing from mozilla causes the error.
I also get errors printing from Abiword (I don't have openoffice installed: it's too slow).

what does /etc/printcap look like?

lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
   :lp=/dev/lp0:\
   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
   :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
   :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
   :pl#66
   :pw#80
   :pc#150:\
   :mx#0:\
   :sh:

nate

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