Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote:
>> 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 grasping
>>>> 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 like
>>>> a charm.  If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too.
>>>> ROFL  Just kidding but . . . .   If nothing else works, may want to try
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> I think the actual command is hp-setup.  I use KDE and that opens a GUI
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> None of this may help but maybe one will.  May be worth a shot.  ;-)
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>> 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
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>> P. S.  I got my elcheapo ebay cartridges today.  It still prints fine.
>>
>> :-D   Oooo, pretty colors too.
> Same here.
> I use hp-setup to configure the printer once and then it "just works" without 
> further thinking. (Apart from having to switch it on)
>
> I stopped using inkjet/deskjet/... printers years ago after having another one 
> ruined by dried up ink.
> Currently happily using a laserprinter with a network-cable :)
>
> --
> Joost
>
>


I wish I could get me a laser printer.  I'm dipping off into electronics
again and will have to make PCBs and they say laser printers work
better, although I have had a couple tell me ink jets work just as good
now, maybe better.  Still, toner doesn't seem to mess up like cartridges
do.  Just keep the stuff in a relatively dry spot and it's ready to go
when ever you need to print. 

Glad to know that the way I set up my printer works for someone else
too.  Hmmmmm.

Dale

:-)  :-)