On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 07:32 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: > 'Morning All, > I have just acquired an HP PSC 1610 All-In-One printer and am having > trouble establishing communication between the computer and printer. > > The computer is running Ubuntu "Breezy". The packages hplip, hplip-base, > hplip-data and hplip-ppds are all installed. > > System > Administration > Printing tells me that the printer HP-PSC-1600 > is ready but if I try to print a test page nothing happens. > > >From the above tool I find > > Ready: Open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds... > > Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions I can try this evening > when I can get back to it? For the record it turned out to be due to a faulty USB cable. The HPLIP Toolbox still does not think the printer exists but I can print things just the same!
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