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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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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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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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> > |
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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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> 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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Joost |