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

[Konstantin Svist]

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.
>
> There is no HP1018 laser jet device driver in the HP list, but there
> is 1015, which experience leads me to believe is close enough.
>
> Here's the weird part. I configure the HP printer--using any of the 3
> types that show as options ,and send jobs to the printer, and as far
> as CUPS is concerned, they print.  But there's no output from the
> printer.  In KDE, I've started the printer monitor, and I can see the
> jobs pop up onto the print que, and they disappear.  But they never
> come out of the  printer.
>
> As I write this, I'm having a faint memory of something like this on
> another HP printer.  I think it was an HP1200 on which one lighted
> button would flash but nothing would print until the button was
> pressed.  But I don't think I ever got to the bottom of that problem.
>
> Do you suppose my best hope is to find the PPD file that the HP
> windows driver supplies, and install that instead of choosing from the
> list?
>   

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)