On 24.06.18 10:04, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test > > page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other > > print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued: ... > > but no printer output. > > > The CUPS test page includes "Driver: HP3380_6.PPD". I don't know if it > > has selected the best one, or if that's relevant to this print job > > evaporation. > > any error messages on the printer ? > more than 1 tray ? right tray selected ?
No errors on the printer, and now I find that in addition to the test pages mentioned, it prints a .ps saved to file from libreoffice immediately, without any problems. But postscript output by xpdf, which is what I had to hand for the post-installation tests, is still queued and lost without output or visible symptom. So, to probe what's up there, I printed to file from xpdf, then lpr-ed that, as I had done with the saved .ps from libreoffice. That disappeared too, so it seems that the ps from xpdf is somehow unprintable, though they're all %!PS-Adobe-3.0. For the moment, I'll put it down to an xpdf problem, rather than cups, as another .ps I had to hand prints too. Ah ... printing directly from libreoffice, something I very rarely use, works too. It's mysterious rather than a show-stopper now, so we'll see how much effort I put in later to try to print from xpdf and anything else which fails similarly. Thanks for the inquiring mind. Erik -- If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then Quit. No use being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields