Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb
On 14 Mar 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-14 22:28, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> >On 22:05 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>3 PCs or 3 printers?
> >
> >Three different pcs, each with a hp printer directly connected to
> >it via a usb cable using cups printing.
> >
> >Note that cups has always been flakey for me. So I have not infrequently had
> >to reinstall the printer driver to get it working over the years.
> >I have used debian since 2002 or so. Before that redhat 7.3.
> >
>
> Cups has been the opposite for me: rock stable. Since I run Sid,
> I'm of course constantly getting point upgrades, but as for
> problems: nada.
>
> My system is pretty different though: a Dell 3100cn network printer
> that uses some Lexmark driver.
>
I've always found Cups a waste of time and space, I get better results,
without hassles, using lprng and magicfilter. This is on a number of
different printers - Kyocera, Samsung, Brother ...
Anthony
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