HP3550 USB Printer and CUPS

[Andy Green]

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On Thursday 01 April 2004 21:05, Igor N. Kolomiyets wrote:

Hi folks -

> I had the similar problems with Lexmark z34 but they are gone since i
> updated kernel to 2.6.4-1.300.

It seems I can agree with Igor about the 2.6.4-1.300 kernel fixing the 
transport problem identified by John, it is now accepting print jobs fine.  
Thanks for your help guys!   (Unfortunately this Inspiron 5150 laptop video 
will only properly work with the nVidia binary driver (vesa works only up to 
1280x1024, nv just dies) and kernels past .116 have the 4K stack thing that 
the nVidia binary driver is incompatible with.)

I had one additional problem with the HP3550 and The Gimp.  Even after fixing 
the usblp reliability problem, nothing would print.  The usb printing process 
that used to hang would complete in a reasonable time, but nothing would 
issue from the printer.  The solution turned out to be to remove the -oraw 
from the line 

lp -s -dHP3550 -oraw

in The Gimp's Print...| Setup Printer... dialog.  I didn't add this, it was 
done automatically presumably by The Gimp and it completely breaks printing 
with this printer.  since /usr/bin/lp is a symlink that ends up 
at /usr/bin/lp.cups maybe it used to work but breaks CUPS somehow.

One last cosmetic thing, the CUPS webpages still have notes on to edit the 
printer definitions using *redhat*-config-printer.

- -Andy

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