On 11/8/21 15:11, logical american wrote: > Hi: > > I have an HP Deskjet printer connected to a LAN. Without checking to see > if my hardwire cable was plugged in, I attempted to print a document to > this default printer. Nothing happened, so I checked the status, the > printer was placed into pause. > > I opened up the HP Printer Manager and went to the controls section and > hit "enable printer", it asked for the permission override, and then did > nothing. I tried this 2 or 3 times, with no results. > > I went to the CUPS configurator and found that the printer check box for > enabled was white which meant the printer was NOT enabled. I checked the > box, and closed out, rewriting the configuration files. This had the net > effect of enabling the printer back into active mode (on a working LAN) > > Question: > > Why could the HP Printer Manager not override the pause state of the > printer? It seems to me that some execution permission is not there, or > perhaps the HP program does not have Wheels group permission? Any ideas? > > - Randall > >
HPLIP (3.20.5 here) is a series of python modules. Many distros are dropping back to Python-3.9 since Python-3.10 (as is their habit) changed syntax etc. making MPLIP ad other stuff useless. Here, after wrestling with HPLIP hp-scan and various broken hp-toolbox issues (even tried 3.21.8; I was able to find a few partial patches), Slackware-15.0 RC1 rolled back to Python-3.9 so that stuff just works. Check your distro package repo. [aside] Given the Python devs' mindset, I would never recommend Python for any programming project. Idiots, all of them. "They can pry C, FORTRAN and assembly from my cold, dead fingers!" [/aside] -Ed
