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From: ubiquitous1980 <nixuser1980@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:45:31
Message-Id: 4BD24D1D.3000806@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not. by Peter Humphrey
1 Hello everyone who has replied so far,
2
3 I updated to net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 same fault occurs...ran hp-setup
4 as root. Perhaps it is time to escalate this as a bug? Any opinion?
5
6 Thanks
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8 ubiquitous1980
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11 On 24/04/10 08:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
12 > On Friday 23 April 2010 17:23:31 Dale wrote:
13 >
14 >
15 >> I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it
16 >> does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is
17 >> slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I
18 >> also always run hp-setup as root not a user.
19 >>
20 > You have to run hp-setup as root; nothing less will do.
21 >
22 > Seems to me that hplip is a black art. I have an HP printer here which
23 > sometimes is entirely complaisant, other times its jobs just sit there
24 > until I find the right invocation, other times again nothing I do will
25 > coax it into action, short of killing the job and trying again.
26 >
27 > Surely, printing can't be as hard as this in this new age?
28 >
29 >

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