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[65.0.116.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p1sm12621476obi.2.2015.11.03.20.38.19 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Nov 2015 20:38:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151102000812.GA1123@ca.inter.net> <5638DB2C.5030101@gmail.com> <56391163.1030809@gmail.com> From: Dale X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56398BBA.30603@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 22:38:18 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56391163.1030809@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 886cc977-a839-4992-a7a9-81e1769b460a X-Archives-Hash: 3c4be0231686b000ce6b0d535c7e918b Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: >> >> >> I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be graspin= g >> at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest >> time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete= >> and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, >> period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the= >> delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked li= ke >> a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too= =2E=20 >> ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to tr= y >> that.=20 >> >> Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went = in >> as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at >> least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, >> and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, >> currently out of ink, again.=20 >> >> I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GU= I >> to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems= >> to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer >> hooked up then you may have to select something.=20 >> >> None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-)=20 > That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime= > a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd > delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. > > Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an > unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better= > at suing Samsung than actually writing code.... > > For some reason, cups just doesn't like HP, at least in my case. I've had that problem for ages until a couple years or so ago. I always used cups to setup and mange the printer. After getting enough of it one day, I stopped cups. I then set up the printer with hplip. It took less than a minute to do to, just keep clicking next for me. After I did that, I don't think I have had to delete/readd the printer since. I know I have updated both cups and hplip too, likely several times. No telling what has been updated that they depend on.=20 Maybe I got lucky or maybe just not using cups works. Odd thing is, when I rebooted later, cups started automatically and the printer still works and the printer shows up in cups. It's been working ever since.=20 So, kick cups out of the way, set it up using only hplip stuff and see what happens. Heck, it just may work. :/ Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even happier. o_O=20 Dale :-) :-)=20 P. S. I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today. It still prints fine.=20 :-D Oooo, pretty colors too.=20