Can Only Print Test Pages

dolphinaura · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 145

I installed the drivers for the Brother HL2140 from the brother site.

I have a weird problem now.

I can only print test pages. If I print something other than a test page (i.e., in libreoffice), nothing coms out of the printer. If the printer is sleeping, it simply wakes up and does nothing.

help?

EDIT: it only happens in KDE apps (libreoffice was compiled w/ kde. Firefox is GTK, and it works there.....)
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 888 Location: Germany

I have a quite similar problem.
Like the above poster I can print testpages via the CUPS web interface. Printing a PDF, however, does not work at all. The printer pretends to print, but only blank pages come out.
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 888 Location: Germany

In my case, something funny with the driver seems to be the culprit.
When I just choose "Print" (for example in LibreOffice), the file will print. But if I change settings, like using Normal Gray instead of Normal Colour, the document will not really print (the head moves and the paper is transported through the printer, but the page stays blank).

This is with latest stable hplip and cups on AMD64, using a HP PSC 1410.
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John R. Graham · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject:

Did you all have the "cups" USE flag set when libreoffice was built?

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doll1 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:27 am Post subject:

Yes.

cups use flag is set globally, in my case. My printer is connected to a server in another room. cups/client.conf is set. Some applications show me the printers name in the printing dialog. LibreOffice doesn't, just the 'generic printer'. But neither application does printing.

My first KDE-install. Not a really impressing feature...
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doll1 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 9:13 am Post subject:

this comes in case of printing from the command-line

doll1 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:06 am Post subject: SOLVED (for me)

Fenril · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 209

dolphinaura · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 145

Solved - Using usblp0 was not such a good idea.
Used this Guide -> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-422995-start-0.html
To get the printer working. It was autodetected by cups, and now prints from anywhere

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