Thank you Johannes for your assistance. It seems the DJ4100 print driver is not compatible with the DJ4168 printer. The Win2K spooler always gets stuck after sending 64Kb of data to the printer. The only way to unfreeze it is to cancel the document in Windows and then power-cycle the printer. I'm thinking the data sent to the printer is not what the printer is expecting. Printing from both Win2K computers works fine.
I installed CUPS so is the print driver from CUPS or is it part of HP-IJS? This certainly sounds like a print driver issue since the print job from Linux is getting all the way to the printer. Can someone point me in a direction to get more troubleshooting done? Here is the output from hp-check: colinux:/# hp-check HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a) Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 5.3 Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. --------------- | SYSTEM INFO | --------------- Basic system information: Linux colinux 2.6.11-co-0.6.4 #1 Mon Jun 19 05:36:13 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Detected distro (/etc/issue): debian 4.0r0 Detected distro (lsb_release): Debian 4.0r0 (etch) Currently installed HPLIP version... HPLIP 1.7.4a currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'. Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file: # hplip.conf [hpiod] # port=0 (dynamic IP port) port=2208 [hpssd] # port=0 (dynamic IP port) port=2207 [hplip] version=1.7.4a jdprobe=0 [dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-1.7.4a # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. [configure] network-build=1 pp-build=0 gui-build=1 scanner-build=0 fax-build=0 cups11-build=0 installinitd=/usr/lib/lsb/install_initd chkconfig= internal-tag=1.7.4.13 HPLIP running? Yes, HPLIP is running (OK). HPOJ running? No, HPOJ is not running (OK). Checking Python version... OK, version 2.4.4 installed Checking PyQt version... OK, version 3.16 installed. Checking SIP version... OK, Version 4.4.5 installed ---------------- | DEPENDENCIES | ---------------- Checking for dependency libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... OK, found. Checking for dependency gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler... OK, found. Checking for dependency SANE - Scanning library... error: Not found! error: This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. Checking for dependency GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer... OK, found. Checking for dependency libjpeg - JPEG library... OK, found. Checking for dependency libpthread - POSIX threads library... OK, found. Checking for dependency make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs... OK, found. Checking for dependency python-devel - Python development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency Reportlab - PDF library for Python... error: Not found! This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency PyQt - Qt interface for Python... OK, found. Checking for dependency cups-devel- Common Unix Printing System development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... error: Not found! This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency libusb - USB library... OK, found. Checking for dependency scanimage - Shell scanning program... error: Not found! This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language... OK, found. Checking for dependency LSB - Linux Standard Base support... OK, found. Checking for dependency xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE... error: Not found! This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency cups - Common Unix Printing System... OK, found. Checking for dependency Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality... OK, found. ---------------------- | INSTALLED PRINTERS | ---------------------- D4168 ----- Device URI: smb://blackbox/D4168 Installed in HPLIP? No PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/D4168.ppd PPD Description: HP DeskJet D4100 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) Printer status: printer D4168 is idle. enabled since Mon May 14 01:13:47 2007 error: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP. (You can still print to this printer using another backend and HPIJS.) ---------------------- | SANE CONFIGURATION | ---------------------- 'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'... error: '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf' not found. Is SANE installed? --------------------- | PYTHON EXTENSIONS | --------------------- Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension... OK, found. Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension... OK, found. 7 errors were detected. Please refer to the installation instructions at: http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html -- Larry Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes Meixner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hplip-help@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 05:16 Subject: Re: [Hplip-help] Linux to Win2000 printing > > Hello, > > On May 2 06:03 Larry Crouch wrote (shortened): > > I have an HP DeskJet D4168 printer connected to a Windows 2000 > > computer via the USB bus. The printer is shared and my other > > networked PCs print to the printer fine. This printer only prints, > > it does not fax, scan or copy. > > If I understand you correctly, you only want to print > and youn don't need device service and/or device status > via the hp-toolbox on the client machines in the network? > > If yes, > all you need is the HPIJS driver from the HPLIP software > together with the matching PPD file for CUPS to produce the right > printer specific data for this particular model. > You neither need the HPLIP daemons running (used for direct device > communication which is not possible here because the actual device > is "hidden" behind the SMB share) nor do you need the HPLIP GUI > programs like "hp-toolbox". > Have a look at > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/hpijs.html > > According to > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/combined.html > a HP DeskJet D4160/D4163 belongs to the DJ4100 printer class > (a printer class contains compatible models). > I hope that the D4168 is also compatible to those models. > Unfortunately it seems you bought a "lightweight" device > because it "does not understand PCL", see > http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_D4100 > and compare this for example with > http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Purchasing_a_Printer_and_Compatibility > I.e. it seems you really need the matching HPIJS driver > and cannot use one of the many generic PCL drivers. > The DJ4100 printer class is available since HPLIP version 1.6.6. > Check if your Linux distribution provides this version or > a newer one because then you don't need to compile and install > HPLIP on your own. > > Regarding how to access a SMB share, have a look at > http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_via_SMB_%28Samba%29_Share_or_Windows_Share > or see the various articles/documentation regarding Samba. > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany > AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. 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