On 06/15/2015 06:00 PM, Brian wrote:
On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 15:22:48 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote:I have un-installed and re-installed cups. I used the add printer feature from the menu items under my name. It comes up with various items that can be changed and printer is one of them. It is locked so IThe name of the software being used was wanted. It appears it is not hplip or the web interface at http://localhost:631. Not that it would necessarily make any difference apart from getting a different error message.unlocked it with the root password. I went through all the steps and at the very end it says 'printer could not be added'. I then tried from the main menu under system tools and it did the same thing. When I plug the printer in before a message would pop up and ask if you wanted to install it, now there is nothing.We assume the printer is connected by USB, Please post the outputs of these three commands: lpstat -t lpinfo -m | grep "1000.*ppd.*HP" lpinfo -v (with the printer plugged in). >From the list obtained in the second command's output say which line(s) correspond to your printer. This is what I got
for the above commands but the lpinfo command was not found for
the last two. scheduler is running system default destination: PDF device for PDF: cups-pdf:/ PDF accepting requests since Sun 14 Jun 2015 10:30:11 PM EDT printer PDF is idle. enabled since Sun 14 Jun 2015 10:30:11 PM EDT
lpinfo: command not found |