Printer installed but not working [Solved]

rawbeefman · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 375

I have an installed printer, and for the life of me I cannot get it to print. My buddy and I share it, so I know it works. It recognizes its on the port, and says it is ready and when I print I can use the CUPS tool to see the queued jobs, but it just wont print. Very frustrating. I used all the drivers all with the same result. Anyone have any ideas.
Thanks.
- Eschmann

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:46 am Post subject:

You know, I have that exact same type of printer configured with the same driver and everything. It works fine for me.

Ok, enough sarcasm. Details please.
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rawbeefman · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 375

It's a HP deskjet 5850. I'm using the new HP printer driver. The output of the cups utility is as follows:

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:07 am Post subject:

Does it work if you try to print as root?

Edit: never mind, it looks like you did from your output.
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rawbeefman · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 375

I get the same result printing from root as I do from a user.

AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ

When you say "cups utility" do you mean the HTML interface (http://localhost:631)?

When you bring up the HTML interface and click on "Printers," what does the printer state say?

While you are there double-check and make sure the device URI is correct.
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sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

Please post the output of

donaldino · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 24 Location: Germany

I used to have the same problem with my Epson printer.

I had to re-emerge 'ghostscript-esp' with activated 'cups' use flag (after the printer configuration).
After restarting 'cupsd', everything worked fine.

rawbeefman · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 375

Re-emerging 'ghostscript-esp' worked. These forums are invaluable. Thanks so much.