Hi list! I could need some help here: I've bought an HP Deskjet 3050 USB printer/scanner. Copying works but printing doesn't.
The first odd thing is that the HPLIP application (its qt4-frontend) doesn't detect the device although dmesg shows a correct identification on USB. However, the ordinary CUPS web interface allows me to configure the printer. It is correctly detected there. Then I've selected the default (and only) deskjet.ppd file. My problem is: When I print, no error is shown but there is also no output on the printer. There is no reaction at all. The logs are also clean. I've tried the same thing with Ubuntu netbook edition. There the printer was detected (by whatever GUI they use, I guess it was GNOME's). The application then told me it had no compatible drivers. It had drivers for a lot of similar HP deskjets and since I guess they all have the basically same interface, I've chosen one of them. Again, there was no reaction at all. CUPS seems to think the jobs finished successfully. Can anyone give me a pointer to a solution? Do I need to configure the printer in Windows before it reacts? By the way: The device is reported to have "perfect" linux support in the various printer databases ... Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp
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