Hey Rex, The URI for the printer should look like:
hp:/usb/Deskjet_6980_series?serial=MY5974Q03Q04CWCan you run hp-check and post the output? Have you tried using hp-setup to configure the printer?
Thanks! A Rex Bachmann wrote:
Aaron J Albright wrote: /Rex, Sorry I'm not exactly clear as to what the problem is. /---That makes two of us. / The impression I'm getting is that you are unable to print,/----yes, but the system, complete with icon and caption, / tells / me it's sending the document to the printer and that the document is printing!/. . . and that you are using OpenSuse. /---SuSE Linux 10.1, or so it says. /What version of hplip are you using? /---(as stated before) hplip 1.6.7, the latest offered on the HP download site./It appears from the URI provided "URI: ipp://linux-p9wc:631/rpinters/HPclj2605dn" that theprinter is not setup correctly./---Could you be (much!) more specific??? What should it read, do you think?Could this whole thing be due to having assigned the printer to the wrong lp (laser port)? I've already moved it around serveral times and the one time it did print a document, it was connected to its present lp./Please review:http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/step4/index.html <http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/step4/index.html>For how to setup the printer for using HPLIP. Hope this helps./---I appreciate your taking the time to reply, but I certainly have looked through--read carefully, actually---and followed these instructions before (to the best of my admittedly limited ability) and look where it got me. How do I test for "correct installation" (except by trying to print, of course) and what do I do about it since, if I'm right, I've already installed the files (however ineptly)?_ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Johannes Meixner wrote: /On Sep 3 17:09 Rex Bachmann wrote (shortened): > ... looked into the etc. directory of my system. There is no CUPS > subdirectory there. I.e. ls -ld /etc/cups/ results "No such file or directory" on your system. This means either there is no CUPS installed at all (but a default installation of Suse Linux does install a complete CUPS system) or your CUPS installation is corrupted./---Double oops! on my part. Sorry, the CUPS directory / was / there after all, I just must have issued the command wrong at the time.Its contents: certs command.types lpoptions ppds.dat .printers.conf.swp classes.conf cupsd.conf mime.convs printcap pstoraster.convs classes.conf.O hplip-1.6.7 mime.types printers.conf ssl client.conf interfaces ppd printers.conf.O ________________________________________________________________________ Inside the printers.conf-file it says the following: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23 # Written by cupsd on Sun Sep 3 14:35:09 2006 <DefaultPrinter HPclj2605dn> Info Location DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 AllowUser all users </Printers> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The sole contents of the etc/cups/ppd-subdirectory: HPclj2605dn.ppdAs far as the possibility of this file being "corrupted", I hesitate to reproduce its contents for your inspection 'cause it's so long, but I can do so if this will help the process along.The only thing I can think of at this point is that I selected the ppd-file that is for the whole 260[5]-series that is labelled hpclj2605 from within the iinstalled hplip-setup. I did so because that is as close a match to the printer model I have. In retrospect, though, that doesn't seem likely to be the source of the problem since the system tells me that the particular ppd meant for exactly this printer is what's actually installed.Seehttp://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_Reinstalling_the_Printing_System <http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_Reinstalling_the_Printing_System>---I'm certatinly willing to re-install, however it looks terribly complicated, way more complicated than the printer set-up installation.For general information about CUPS please read http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell---Since CUPS was, and is, installed after all is, there any advice on how to simply purge the present hplip and start over again, if that is deemed necessary?Thanks. Rex Bachmann _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Inside the printers.conf-file it says the following: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23 # Written by cupsd on Sun Sep 3 14:35:09 2006 <DefaultPrinter HPclj2605dn> Info Location DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 AllowUser all users </Printers>On 9/5/06, *Aaron J Albright* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:Rex, Sorry I'm not exactly clear as to what the problem is. The impression I'm getting is that you are unable to print, and that you are using OpenSuse. What version of hplip are you using? It appears from the URI provided "URI: ipp://linux-p9wc:631/rpinters/HPclj2605dn" that the printer is not setup correctly. Please review: http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/step4/index.html <http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/step4/index.html> For how to setup the printer for using HPLIP. Hope this helps. Aaron Rex Bachmann wrote: > A heartfelt thanks to all who have taken the time to reply to my > original plea for help. > > Before I saw any of them, I had already received a reply from the > Linuxprinting.org <http://Linuxprinting.org> forum suggesting that I add an option to the 'make' > command ("---disable-network-build"), which I assume disables network > printing. I did this with: > > ./configure ---disable-network-build > > This seems to have worked perfectly in that I got a different output > with no error message. It configured a 'make'-file and I did the > make-install procedure, which did a very, very long configuration that > resulted in (presumably) all the drivers in the unpacked HPLIP 1.6.7 > tarball being properly installed. I went in and selected the driver > for the HPclj2605 and thought I was on my way to printing magic. > Unfortunately, however, that hasn't happened. > > I've tried changing the usb laser ports in case I had it set for the > wrong one, because the system told me several times when I've tried to > print from Open Office that it was actually printing. Yet nothing > happens. ONCE---and only once---I got it to print correctly from a > new, untitled one-line document I made up just to test it: "The rain > in Spain falls mainly in the plain." It even got the font I assigned > correct. > > Otherwise, zilch, except for nonspecific 'error message' from > established (named) documents in Open Office. > > I thought this might be an Open Office 2.0 problem, so I tried > printing from a plain text document in KATE where I got the following, > detailled 'error message': > > "A print error occurred. Error message received from system: > > cupsdoprint -P 'HPclj2605dn' -J 'Untitled' -H 'localhost:631' -U > '[my name]'-o 'copies=1 [jobpriority=1] > multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies > orientation-requested=3' 'tmp/kde-[my name]/kdeprint_q2qQdbou[/7LXGUKxB]': > > execution failed with message: > > client-error-not-possible" > > > What's this "job priority 50" setting business that seems to come > with the system??? In KATE's system options I changed the priority to > 1 and still got the same print-error message, except for the bracketed > supplements or variants in lines 3 and 5. > > A check of the CUPS settings shows the following information: > > host: local host > port: 631 > user: [me] > driver: "HPclj2605 Postscript (recommended)" > URI: ipp://linux-p9wc:631/rpinters/HPclj2605dn > device: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 > > > I tried also to print a Web page from Opera 9.1, and the system again > gave an icon whose caption claimed it was "generating data" and then > "printing", > but, once again, nothing happened at the printer end (no flashing > light, nothing). > > One strange thing the printer has done several times without any > apparent action on my part: it's spent several minutes "calibrating", > and I have no idea what that means or what was going on except a lot > of noise came from it. No read-out explained what it had supposedly > achieved. > > I bought an HP printer <I>despite<I/> misgivings about HP's Linux > support because it was supposed to be the <I.<U>safe<U/><I/> option. > I'm beginning to be sorry. This should be simple and it isn't, despite > HP's claim of some kind of close working relationship with > Novell/SuSE. They're going to have to come up with something > simpler and more efficacious than this for SOHO users, who have to be > their own Linux "administrators", even if they're not techies. > > So, do I need to do some kind of CUPS configuration, 'cause I honestly > can't think of what else would be involved in these problems, IF they > are SOFTWARE-related in origin? [Here, maybe I should also point out > that my computer has USB 1.1, not 2, in case that's relevant.] > > > Thanks again, everybody. > > > Rex Bachmann > > > On 9/1/06, Johannes Meixner < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Aug 31 13:23 Rex Bachmann wrote (shortened): >> > I just bought an HP color laserjet 2605dn printer >> ... >> > I use SuSE Linux 10.1 on X86. >> >> As far as I know this is a PostScript printer. >> Therefore you don't need any special driver but only the >> plain PPD file for this printer, see our online manual: >> /usr/share/doc/manual/suselinux-manual_en/manual/sec.drucken.prob.html >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 11.7.2. No Suitable PPD File Available for a PostScript Printer >> >> If the manufacturer-PPDs package does not contain any suitable PPD file >> for a PostScript printer, it should be possible to use the PPD file >> from the driver CD of the printer manufacturer or download a suitable >> PPD file from the Web page of the printer manufacturer. >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> or see our support database: >> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell <http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell> >> >> For example you can download the PPD from >> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2605 <http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2605> >> >> (go to "custom PPD"). >> >> Then either use "lpadmin" to set up the queue directly >> or use YaST and choose something like "add PPD to database" in YaST. >> >> >> HPLIP 1.6.7 packages built for Suse Linux 10.1 >> for 32-bit Intel compatible (i586) and for 64-bit AMD (x86_64) >> are available for testing (and only for testing) at >> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/hplip/10.1/ >> >> There are incompatibilities with our official HPLIP >> packages in Suse Linux 10.1. >> Be prepared that your existing configuration may no longer work >> with the new packages and/or that there may be no YaST support >> for the new packages, see for example >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=184798 >> >> Note the "unsupported" and read the README: >> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jsmeix/unsupported/hplip/10.1/RPMS/README >> >> >> Kind Regards >> Johannes Meixner >> -- >> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ >> >
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