Re: [Sheflug] New HP Deskjet 3940 printer

[John Southern <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Janet,

> I haven't been able to post for sometime as I have not been able to send
> outgoing mails.
>
> My printer finally died.  I visited linuxprinting and HP and decided on
> the 3940, which I thought was a 'perfectly'.  However, it appears it is
> a 'mostly'.  I have set the printer up with it not connected to the
> computer.  It printed the test page correctly.
>
> Now it is connected to my computer it does print, but it is not related
> to what is on the screen.  It prints a few strange characters and feeds
> out several empty pages.
>
> How can I get this to work?

Can you see if it prints directly?
Create a very simple text file called test.txt using only standard characters.
>From a console, use the command:-

lp test.txt

Did it print out correctly?
What device does it say it printed out to?

Mine comes back with:-

black@box:~$ lp ./test.txt
request id is LocalPrintShop-202 (1 file(s))
black@box:~$  

And the page prints:-
Hello World

LocalPrintShop happens to be the name of one of my print queues for a locally 
attached printer.

Do you have hplip and hplip-ppds loaded? This should then work with a print 
class of DJ3600.
For my HP laser I had problems everytime I set it up if I hit the test printer 
button. As long as I don't, it works perfectly.

On one of the forums is a solution
http://desktopbsd.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4501#4501

Equally so the end of the thread at 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=239772&highlight=3940
might help

John

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