[gentoo-user] HP printing query

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

140417 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Philip Webb schrieb am 16.04.2014 01:07:
>> I ran into a problem trying to print yesterday -- solved for now -- ,
>> but would like to simplify things for the next occasion.
>> What appears to have happened is that when I updated Hplip + Cups,
>> one of them created a new printer, so that the list now appears as :
>>   Deskjet_2510	Automatically setup by HPLIP
>>    HP Deskjet 2510 Series hpijs, 3.13.9  Paused - "Filter failed"
>>   Deskjet_2510_2  Deskjet_2510_2
>>    HP Deskjet 2510 Series hpijs, 3.13.9	 Idle
>> I had the Vim plug-in 'prtdialog' + Kwrite + LO set to use the former,
>> but needed to change them all to the latter to get the printer to respond.
> I have removed the auto-configuration [1] of hplip printers
> done by udev rules. There was an upgrade and an uninstall tool
> which I have removed as well. These should be done by the user/admin.
> As mentioned on the wiki page for hplip [2], at every upgrade
> the recommended action is to delete all print queues
> and recreate them again either with hp-setup or the cups web interface.
> [1] *hplip-3.14.3 (07 Mar 2014)
>   07 Mar 2014; Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> +hplip-3.14.3.ebuild:
>   Version bump. This version adds a patch which removes the update and
>   uninstall python scripts as well as the auto-configuration/plug-in
>   installation related stuff from the udev rules. This should fix Gentoo bug
>   #434830 (Upstream bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1080353).
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/HPLIP

Thanks : this change appears to have eliminated the problem.

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