Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

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 :)

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Joost