hplip and Fedora Core 5

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Aug 5 13:07:05 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 02:01 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I just purchased a new computer to replace my main desktop machine.  I have a
> HP Laserjet 2550L printer on this machine.
<snippage>
> I print a test page and nothing happens.  The job shows up if I enter lpq at
> the commandline, but the job is never printed.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that I'm missing a step.  What am I doing wrong?

Did you remove the old config? It might still be trying to use the
parallel cable instead of USB? Worked out of the box for me, but I had
no prior printer configuration. Maybe mv config to old_config, something
like that, and fire it up from scratch might help? Trouble shooting with
a shotgun, Ric
 

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