[gentoo-user] HP Deskjet 3050 no output - no error

[Florian Philipp]

Hi list!

I could need some help here: I've bought an HP Deskjet 3050 USB
printer/scanner. Copying works but printing doesn't.

The first odd thing is that the HPLIP application (its qt4-frontend)
doesn't detect the device although dmesg shows a correct identification
on USB. However, the ordinary CUPS web interface allows me to configure
the printer. It is correctly detected there. Then I've selected the
default (and only) deskjet.ppd file.

My problem is: When I print, no error is shown but there is also no
output on the printer. There is no reaction at all. The logs are also clean.

I've tried the same thing with Ubuntu netbook edition. There the printer
was detected (by whatever GUI they use, I guess it was GNOME's). The
application then told me it had no compatible drivers. It had drivers
for a lot of similar HP deskjets and since I guess they all have the
basically same interface, I've chosen one of them. Again, there was no
reaction at all. CUPS seems to think the jobs finished successfully.

Can anyone give me a pointer to a solution? Do I need to configure the
printer in Windows before it reacts?

By the way: The device is reported to have "perfect" linux support in
the various printer databases ...

Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp