Attached printer not working in openSuse 13.1
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Thank you. I will address the paper size issue, test it, and report back.
Early on you mentioned that the driver may be an issue. At someone's suggestion (dedoimedo), I tried the Foomatic drivers instead of the HP driver. Although two of them work, the output is poor, either from a lack of formatting or what appears to be no font support. I list them below with the results: /ljet4 - prints from KATE /lj4dith - prints from KATE /lj5gray - PCL XL error /postscript - no output /pxlmono - PCL XL error I wonder why the variance in performance. Thank you for the advice on VirtualBox configuration -- I will work on that as well. Do think that a network-addressable printer or even a USB local printer might resolve these issues? I suppose the answer depends in part where in the protocol stack the problem lies. |
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Neither a network addressable printer nor a USB printer would solve the issue - although it could make the HP driver more able to detect that the printer doesn't support a given type of paper and handle it appropriately rather than letting the job be dropped (assuming changing the paper size fixes it).
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Thanks - I was resigned to getting another printer.
This is turning into quite a puzzle - I can print with no issues from the Samba-connected machine, but now from KATE on the machine directly connected to printer only with the foomatic/lj4dith driver - the /ljet4 driver I thought was working yields a garbled result (a jumbled character set with symbols, etc.). And the result with the /lj4dith driver is not good. I will prepare a scan of a portion of the page and post it somewhere and then post the url here so you can see it. In case I did not mention this previously, the OS was reinstalled at least once, so I believe that the integrity of the system is not the issue. |
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I have now tried every driver that shows up in Yast. As noted previously, printing from KATE doesn't work with the recommended Postscript drivers. The last one I tried today is the pcl3, hpcups 3.13.10 -- hplip, etc.
I typed the word "test" and confirmed that the paper size was set to letter; I also set the size in desktop configuration panel under printers. The printout can be viewed at: http://susepaste.org/59bc89bf. The tail for the error_log is as follows:
The SuSE hardware compatibility list has an interesting entry for the predecessor 4000 model to my printer (the 4050). http://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Printers#Laserjet_4000_.28b.2Fw.29. Admittedly, these are "old" printers, but the entries seem to imply that the printer might not perform as well on a local connection (compare the entry for the 4000 with the later models):
Working printer by means of Samba (shared printer), SuSE 10.1 Laserjet 4100tn (b/w) Autodetected: Icon-checked.png using Yast printer module or CUPS, TCP/IP adapter, SUSE Linux 10.1 Laserjet 4200dtn (b/w) Autodetected: Icon-checked.png using Yast printer module or CUPS, TCP/IP adapter, SUSE Linux 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 Laserjet 4250tn (b/w) Autodetected: Icon-checked.png using Yast printer module or CUPS, TCP/IP adapter, SUSE Linux 10.1 |
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Just wondering - what type of paper does the printer take? If I recall - Libreoffice was using A4, not Letter - could you try configuring the printer to use A4, with the standard Postscript driver?
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I set LibreOffice for letter as well. I generally use letter - I only used A4 when I had to prepare certain documents for which it was required, otherwise I avoid it.
Also, I am able to print from LibreOffice without difficulty. Please let me know if you still want me to try A4 with the standard Postscript driver. And then try to print from which applications? |
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I've examined the log more closely. Libreoffice sets only PageSize to Letter/A4, while Kate sets both Media and PageSize - which could have an impact. The only Libreoffice logs i've seen thus far have been for A4 print jobs - so please test this combination.
When setting the printer to use A4, it should be able to print a test page from within CUPS successfully afterwards, and from within CUPS. For this test, please use the standard Postscript driver.
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The site is not taking the post as is, so I am breaking it up into three parts.
I'm not certain that I fully understand your last request, but I hope the following is helpful. I installed the standard HP postscript driver and set the page/media size to A4 in the desktop printer panel - A4 now shows in CUPS and in KATE. Printed test page successfully from CUPS. Tail log:
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I'm not certain that I fully understand your last request, but I hope the following is helpful. I installed the standard HP postscript driver and set the page/media size to A4 in the desktop printer panel - A4 now shows in CUPS and in KATE.
Printed test page successfully from CUPS. Tail log:
Unsuccessful attempt to print from KATE; please excuse me for not mentioning this before, but every time I hit print in KATE, the printer LCD momentarily indicates "processing job" and then reverts to "ready." So the printer is obviously receiving something from the PC. Tail log:
Successful print from LibreOffice (A4)
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Success on one front. Thanks to your advice, I got the printer installed and working on the Windows XP VirtualBox guest. To do so, in addition to your instructions (including port 631), I had to assign the network interface to the internal zone of the firewall. Hopefully, this didn't break anything I need on the host machine. Thanks!!
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Not a problem - in regards to the Kate printing, that was my intention. Unfortunately the posted log does not contain any details on what CUPS was trying to do. Could you try again please (running tail -f before hitting print in Kate)?
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Tail from KATE (media/page = A4):
Out of curiosity, tail -- but for print to postscript file:
I have the postscript file if that would be of interest. |
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KDE applications print to Postscript directly, and don't interface with CUPS. I'm afraid I don't know why Kate and other KDE applications are unable to print while Libreoffice and CUPS own test page are printed successfully. To my knowledge they don't do anything special which would prevent them from being used.
If there is a CUPS forum you might be able to get assistance there in investigating the issue.
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Thanks for all of your efforts. As you suggested, I will look at cups.org.
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