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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping |
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>>>> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest |
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>>>> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete |
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>>>> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, |
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>>>> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the |
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>>>> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like |
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>>>> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. |
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>>>> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try |
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>>>> that. |
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>>>> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in |
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>>>> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at |
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>>>> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, |
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>>>> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, |
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>>>> currently out of ink, again. |
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>>>> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI |
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>>>> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems |
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>>>> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer |
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>>>> hooked up then you may have to select something. |
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>>>> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) |
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>>> That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime |
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>>> a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd |
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>>> delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. |
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>>> Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an |
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>>> unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better |
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>>> at suing Samsung than actually writing code.... |
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>> For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've |
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>> had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used |
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>> cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one |
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>> day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took |
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>> less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I |
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>> did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I |
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>> know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No |
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>> telling what has been updated that they depend on. |
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>> Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, |
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>> when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still |
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>> works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since. |
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>> So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see |
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>> what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ |
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>> Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to |
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>> English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even |
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>> happier. o_O |
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>> |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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>> P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine. |
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>> :-D Oooo, pretty colors too. |
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> Same here. |
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> I use hp-setup to configure the printer once and then it "just works" without |
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> further thinking. (Apart from having to switch it on) |
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> I stopped using inkjet/deskjet/... printers years ago after having another one |
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> ruined by dried up ink. |
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> Currently happily using a laserprinter with a network-cable :) |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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I wish I could get me a laser printer. I'm dipping off into electronics |
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again and will have to make PCBs and they say laser printers work |
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better, although I have had a couple tell me ink jets work just as good |
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now, maybe better. Still, toner doesn't seem to mess up like cartridges |
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do. Just keep the stuff in a relatively dry spot and it's ready to go |
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when ever you need to print. |
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Glad to know that the way I set up my printer works for someone else |
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too. Hmmmmm. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |