Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

[Alan E. Davis]

Yes.  Even installed as hplip, when jobs are printed, they are
immediately marked as "stopped" in the jobs interface.  There is no
indication that the printer is on line at all, except that it shows up
as Ready.

Thank you,

Alan

On Jan 7, 2008 10:24 AM, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>
>  Alan E. Davis wrote:
>  I have installed two or three times, deleted /etc/cups and reinstalled
> the printer. It showed up as an HPLIP device when installing, w/ CUPS
> and/or the kde printer utility. NOtably the utility OR the
> localhost:631 interface did not show any option for a USB printer.
> The address that ended up being used was a usb:<printername>. When I
> get gentoo booted up I'll look at it again. For now, I have to print,
> so I've installed Ubuntu on another partition. Printing works fine
> there, so that's a start.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alan
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 2:48 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Sunday 06 January 2008, Dale wrote:
>
>
>  Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>
>  I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge
> cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my
> printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config
> files remain in /etc unchanged.
>
>  Assuming that you have set the correct device in the GUI for your printer,
> then the most likely error is that your have not provided the correct path
> for it. Show us what you have defined the path as in case we can help.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  They recently changed it over to hplip.  Is that installed on your system?
>
>  Dale
>
>  :-)  :-)
>



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