On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 06:49:10 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote: > > Paul Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: > > >>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or > > >>> whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print > > >>> landscape. > > >> > > >> I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer > > >> devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird > > >> printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and > > >> re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway. > > > > > > With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as > > > root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer > > > either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy > > > things. > > > > I have had to do the same thing. I have also noticed if I don't run the > > config tool that it will max out one CPU core until I kill hplip or log > > out and sometimes have to kill hplip then. > > > > Recently, I have noticed I don't have to do that and everything works as > > expected. Sort of surprised really. I have got so used to redoing > > everything after a update. > > Thanks guys, but I think that I only use the hpjis driver rather than the > full hplip package. This is because the printer is connected to this > printer server: > > http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2516/ > > which works with lpd://<ip_address> > > I remember running the hp-config or some such script some years back. It > did not find the printer, or server, or ever configured anything. It only > tried to connect to USB devices. Now looking at my machine I can't see it > anywhere, but there's loads of other commands there! > > hp-align hp-info hp-pqdiag hp-systray > hp-check hp-levels hp-print hp-testpage > hp-clean hp-linefeedcal hp-printsettings hp-timedate > hp-colorcal hp-makecopies hp-probe hp-toolbox > hp-devicesettings hp-makeuri hp-query hp-unload > hp-fab hp-mkuri hp-scan hp-wificonfig > hp-faxsetup hp-pkservice hp-sendfax hpftodit > hp-firmware hp-plugin hp-setup hpijs > > I will try to run some of these when I get to that machine next, because I > will be interested to see if it changes anything. Any suggestions what I > should run?
Oops! Yes, it was hp-setup as you say. Will try that again and see what it gives. -- Regards, Mick
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