On 09/06/2013 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: > Doug, > I just had a similar thing happen to my HP Laserjet 4050tn. It was very > slow getting the pages out. I was using the CUPS Postscript driver and > isolated the problem to the printer. Cups showed the document sent and > completed as far as it was concerned, but the printer LED was still > flashing and after 30 minutes, still had not printed even the first > page. I discovered changing the CUPS driver from Postscript to the HP > PCL3 driver made it work fine. Now pages print within seconds of > clicking on Print. > All of my computers are Slackware 14.0 Linux and all of my HP printers > are networked. > > I may note that this problem started when I upgraded to Slack 14.0 with > the new 3.x kernel. It may be that the newer Postscript causes the > older Postscript engines in the relatively old HP printers to hang up. > > Hope this helps. > Girvin Herr >
/snip original message/ I just made the change. I'll have to see how that works. Thanx! --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
