Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't 
> intended.
>
> The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test
> page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other
> print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued:
>
> $ lpq
> HP-LaserJet-3050 is ready and printing
> Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
> active  (null)  5       untitled                        8192 bytes
>
> then
>
> $ lpq
> HP-LaserJet-3050 is ready
> no entries
>
> but no printer output.

> The CUPS test page includes "Driver: HP3380_6.PPD". I don't know if it
> has selected the best one, or if that's relevant to this print job
> evaporation.
>
> Erik

any error messages on the printer ?
more than 1 tray ? right tray selected ?

mick


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