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Bug#377079: cupsys: hp_laser (Default Printer) "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds.



Stefan Hirschmann <krasnoj@gmx.at> writes:

> OK. The steps were: (I have a German version but try to translate. If I
> am unsure I write the German word)
> 1. delete all the printers
> 2. "verwaltung" - add printer
> 3. Name HPLaser
> 4. Continue
> 5. Device LPT #1
> 6. as modell  choosed HP  LaserJet PCL 6 CUPS(en)
> 7. klicked add printer and logged in as root
> 8. Message that printer was added succesfull
> 9. klicked on printer and printed a test page.
> 10. seeing that only senseless things are printed.

I would suggest breaking the printing into each of the separate stages
to identify the problem.  For example:

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/gs-esp/examples/tiger.eps.gz | gs-esp -dSAFER
  -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlmono -sPAPERSIZE=a4
  -sOutputFile=test.raw -

# cat test.raw > /dev/lp0

This should print a picture of a tiger.  This is running ghostscript
by hand, completely bypassing CUPS.

The CUPS test page is /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps, so

$ gs-esp -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlmono -sPAPERSIZE=a4
  -sOutputFile=test.raw /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps

should rasterise it.  You can also add e.g. -r600x600 to print at 600
DPI.


Regards,
Roger

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