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On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 06:49:10 Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote: |
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> > Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > >> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> > >>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or |
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> > >>> whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print |
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> > >>> landscape. |
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> > >> I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer |
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> > >> devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird |
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> > >> printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and |
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> > >> re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway. |
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> > > With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as |
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> > > root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer |
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> > > either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy |
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> > > things. |
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> > I have had to do the same thing. I have also noticed if I don't run the |
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> > config tool that it will max out one CPU core until I kill hplip or log |
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> > out and sometimes have to kill hplip then. |
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> > Recently, I have noticed I don't have to do that and everything works as |
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> > expected. Sort of surprised really. I have got so used to redoing |
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> > everything after a update. |
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> Thanks guys, but I think that I only use the hpjis driver rather than the |
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> full hplip package. This is because the printer is connected to this |
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> printer server: |
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> http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2516/ |
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> which works with lpd://<ip_address> |
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> I remember running the hp-config or some such script some years back. It |
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> did not find the printer, or server, or ever configured anything. It only |
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> tried to connect to USB devices. Now looking at my machine I can't see it |
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> anywhere, but there's loads of other commands there! |
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> hp-align hp-info hp-pqdiag hp-systray |
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> hp-check hp-levels hp-print hp-testpage |
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> hp-clean hp-linefeedcal hp-printsettings hp-timedate |
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> hp-colorcal hp-makecopies hp-probe hp-toolbox |
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> hp-devicesettings hp-makeuri hp-query hp-unload |
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> hp-fab hp-mkuri hp-scan hp-wificonfig |
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> hp-faxsetup hp-pkservice hp-sendfax hpftodit |
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> hp-firmware hp-plugin hp-setup hpijs |
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> I will try to run some of these when I get to that machine next, because I |
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> will be interested to see if it changes anything. Any suggestions what I |
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> should run? |
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Oops! Yes, it was hp-setup as you say. Will try that again and see what it |
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gives. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |