Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops
On Mon 18 Mar 2019 at 15:05:43 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 17.03.2019 23:09, Markos wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having problems with my HP Laserjet 1020 printer installed in
> > Debian 9 "Stretch".
> > I installed the drivers from: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
> >
> > ||bash$ | wget |-O | /|foo2zjs.tar.gz
> > http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz|/|
> > ||bash$ | tar |-xzvf | /|foo2zjs.tar.gz |/|
> > ||bash$ | cd /|foo2zjs |/|
> > ||bash$ | make |
> > ||bash$ | ./getweb 1020 |
> >
> > and
> >
> > ||bash# | make /|install |/|
> > ||bash# | make /|install-hotplug
> > |/|
> >
> > ...
> >
> > It worked normally for about 5 years, but suddenly started the
> > following problem:
> >
> > When I print multiple pages, it prints only the first page and pulls a
> > second blank sheet until the half of the sheet and stops.
> >
> > To remove the sheet I need to turn off, remove the toner cartridge and
> > pull the sheet.
> >
> > Any tip about what may be the cause of this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Markos
> >
> >
> >
> Why not use officially supported driver from HP [1] [2], instead of so
> me fishy package that states "DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from: *
> Debian *" on their website.
> At least you can expect from HP driver to work as intended, because your
> printer model is supported. I didn't used it myself, but it looks
> promising and at least sane thing to try.
> And if printer still won't work normally, well I've suspected a hardware
> problem from the very beginning. It could be a wear on some small parts
> in paper feeding area and/or some sensor is triggering during printing
> procedure.
> One way to test if printer itself is working, is to print a few test
> pages from printer itself, without connection to a computer(or network
> in case of printer with NIC).
>
> [1] https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
> [2]
> https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/install/install/index
The advice is good but is there a good reason to advocate installing
hplip from source rather than from the stretch package?
--
Brian.
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