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>>From the HP PSC 1500 All-inOne series User Guide:
<br> >"If the self-test report indicates a problem,
<br> >clean the print cartridges using the HP Image Zone software."
<br> >(formatting mine)
<br> >The self-test report indicates a problem.
<br> >Can what the user guide is suggesting be done from FC6 and CUPS?
<br> >If so, is it useful to do so?
<br>
<br>I'll preface this by saying that I don't actually own an HP printer, but
<br>according to OpenPrinting it looks as though your printer is fully
<br>supported by the hplip drivers included with Fedora and works
<br>'Perfectly' (their word, not mine)
<br>http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PSC_1500
<br>
<br>My guess then is that you can use all the /usr/bin/hp-* tools including
<br>hp-clean which is supposed to clean the print cartridge heads. Beyond
<br>that I can't really help as all it gives me is the below output (since
<br>my printer is a Canon):
<br>
<br>R/S
<br>Jason
<br>
<br>HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
<br>Printer Cartridge Cleaning Utility ver. 1.7
<br>
<br>Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
<br>This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
<br>This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
<br>under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
<br>
<br>warning: Inrecognized URI: usb://Canon/MP170
<br>error: No devices found.
<br>error: Error occured during interactive mode. Exiting.
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