Cups crap
Powell, James F CONT
james.f.powell at navy.mil
Wed Jun 9 23:17:59 UTC 2004
With FC1 my HP Color LaserJet 4500 and 4550 just worked right out of the box, nothing to really do. In FC2 so far all I get is blank pages when I try to print from any application. Since I know it worked in FC1, what happened here?
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 16:10
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Cups crap
I am having no problems with my HP LJ4 in Cups. I have the postscript L2
simm installed and maxed out memory for the rest - and use a JetDirect
card to print to it. I only print from the big 500 sheet drawer, never
tried one of the other sources.
I do not know what your specific problem is.
Are you connected via JetDirect or Parallel or other?
I'm not a CUPS expert - just someone for whom it works OOB with FC2 and
HP LJ4.
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:46, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> I dont know why RedHat unloaded this beta software *Cups* on us, but
> Ive had more printer problems since it arrived than I had in the
> previous 15 or 20 years.
>
> At the moment Im having problems with HPLJ4M+ and Sharp (network) printers.
>
> They work fine on FC2T1.
>
> With the foo-magic (or whatever) ppd file generated in FC2 *nothing* comes out
> of the HP (the Sharp isnt in the CUPS database).
>
> Replacing the ppd file with the one I have been using from FC2T1, the HP
> printer is requesting that I put letter paper in tthe MP drawer, rather
> than taking it from the 500sheet drawer where it has always taken paper.
>
> Ditto a Sharp AR407 printer/duplicator. Again with the ppd file that
> worked previously, now it suddenly wants its paper from the 'straight thru'
> drawer rather than the paper supply in the bottom of the printer.
>
> Needless to say I need to get these two printer working before I can
> convert to FC2.
>
> And just WHY did they make it so hard to print? Everything worked fine
> with lpd...
>
>
> --
> Reg.Clemens
> reg at dwf.com
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