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On Friday 23 April 2010 17:23:31 Dale wrote: |
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> I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it |
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> does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is |
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> slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I |
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> also always run hp-setup as root not a user. |
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You have to run hp-setup as root; nothing less will do. |
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Seems to me that hplip is a black art. I have an HP printer here which |
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sometimes is entirely complaisant, other times its jobs just sit there |
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until I find the right invocation, other times again nothing I do will |
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coax it into action, short of killing the job and trying again. |
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Surely, printing can't be as hard as this in this new age? |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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