Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb
On 21:25 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
> Here's what my Sid system reports:
>
> $ dir /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/
> total 144
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 36864 2009-06-17 20:17:34 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2009-03-14 08:17:14 ../
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 de/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 2009-06-17 20:17:34 en/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 es/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 fr/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 it/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4234 2009-06-16 02:21:34 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 pt/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19596 2009-06-16 02:21:34 ReadMe.htm
and here is mine
ls /home/mlaks# ls /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ -ltr
total 52
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19596 Jun 16 2009 ReadMe.htm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4234 Jun 16 2009 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 pt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 fr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 it
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 es
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 en
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 de
and
file /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt
/usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt: ASCII English text
> Loose connection somewhere?
i have had flaky printing (ie intermittent stopping of printing)
on all three machines with the standard install of cups.
2 machines are running sid and my dad's is an old 4.0 install because all he needs is openoffice and internet.
> Understandable.
>
> What exactly is the printer driver you are using? hplip?
yep i have that installed and i use
Rashi:/home/mlaks# dpkg -l|grep hplip
ii hplip 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii hplip-cups 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster dr
ii hplip-data 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files
ii hplip-doc 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - documentation
ii hplip-gui 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilities
and on the sid machine I have:
i cups 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cups-bsd 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cups-client 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client progr
ii cups-common 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.4-1 printer drivers for CUPS
ii cups-ppdc 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipula
ii cupsddk 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii cupsys 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii cupsys-bsd 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii cupsys-client 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii cupsys-common 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter
rc gnome-cups-manager 0.31-3+b1 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii hal-cups-utils 0.6.16-3 Utilities to detect and configure printers aut
ii hplip-cups 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster dr
ii libcups2 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii libcups2-dev 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Development
ii libcupscgi1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - CGI library
ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Driver libra
ii libcupsimage2 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Raster image
ii libcupsmime1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - MIME library
ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipula
ii libcupsys2 1.3.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii libcupsys2-dev 1.3.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack
ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.3-3+b1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-3+b1 UI extensions to libgnomecups
ii python-cups 1.9.48-1 Python bindings for CUPS
ii python-cupsutils 1.0.0-6 Python utility modules around the CUPS printin
I chose the Postscript recommended option in the hp drivers section in cups...
Thank you for your interest Ron, you have been very helpful in the past too!
Mitchell Laks
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