ever see an HP 1018 laser Jet? why do print job disappear?

[John Summerfield]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 12:30 AM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> Hello, Fedora users!
>>>
>>> Does this problem remind you of anything?
>>>
>>> In one of the Fedora 7 systems I administer, I've seen something very
>>> strange with a new HP 1018 laser printer.  We plug in the USB
>>> connector, and dmesg output indicates the system sees the device.  In
>>> both system-config-printer and also in the CUPS configurator in the
>>> browser, we see 3 lines showing the same printer.  One refers to an HP
>>> printer found by HAL, one refers to an HP printer on hpijs protocol,
>>> the other refers to a USB device.  I don't know why 3, but  that is
>>> par for the course. I see it with all CUPS HP printers, I think.
>>>
>> I have that printer and it works very well for me. You need to use the
>> foo2zjs driver (http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/). Make sure to download from
>> the website, not from the repos (website says packaged/repo versions are
>> broken)
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks. I think that is the right approach.
> 
> Do you (anybody) agree that it is a pretty bad bug in CUPS that it
> does not report any trouble with this printer?  It thinks jobs are
> printing, but they don't.  Other times, when the driver is wrong, the
> jobs pile up in the print que and errors show in the CUPS
> configuration tool.

I would not assume it's a CUPS problem at all.

I would hie myself off to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ and look for the 
latest software.

The folk there are pretty helpful.


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John

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