Hello everyone who has replied so far, I updated to net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 same fault occurs...ran hp-setup as root. Perhaps it is time to escalate this as a bug? Any opinion?
Thanks ubiquitous1980 On 24/04/10 08:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 17:23:31 Dale wrote: > > >> I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it >> does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is >> slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I >> also always run hp-setup as root not a user. >> > You have to run hp-setup as root; nothing less will do. > > Seems to me that hplip is a black art. I have an HP printer here which > sometimes is entirely complaisant, other times its jobs just sit there > until I find the right invocation, other times again nothing I do will > coax it into action, short of killing the job and trying again. > > Surely, printing can't be as hard as this in this new age? > >
