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Re: [Sheflug] New HP Deskjet 3940 printer
Hi John,
I am using Suse 10.0. It's a dual boot machine with windows 98. Finally,
found time to boot into windows. The printer works fine, very quick,
printed me a couple of pears.
John wrote:
>
>
> Hi Janet,
>
> Can you see if it prints directly?
> Create a very simple text file called test.txt using only standard characters.
>
Took a while for me to remember what to do. Then in gedit created, hello
world and saved as test.txt
> >From a console, use the command:-
>
> lp test.txt
>
> Did it print out correctly?
> What device does it say it printed out to?
>
janet@linux:~/Documents> lp test.txt
request id is deskjet5900series-9 (1 file(s))
> 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
>
Nothing happened at the printer.
So I checked printer jobs and several jobs were queued.
I went into printer manager.
Said stopped (accepting jobs)
When I do start/stop printer it asks for an authorization with admin and
password. It puts in janet, but the password I use normally does not work.
However, in manage printer I can be in administrator mode with my root
password. So I was able to get test.txt to print. I'm not sure why it is
doing that now.
It printed 26 sheets of paper with:
$ $? $ $?? $ $?? ?? etc for a line on two pages, third page had on the
far right hand side near the bottom corner, 3 diamonds and 3 clubs. Then
9 blank pages before anymore characters, etc.
> 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.
>
yast control centre/software centre
hplip and hplip-ijs are ticked version 0.9.4-4
I presume this means they are installed.
> On one of the forums is a solution
> http://desktopbsd.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4501#4501
>
When I go to: http://localhost:631/printers
I get asked for username and password at CUPS
I'd tried various things that do not work.
> Equally so the end of the thread at
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=239772&highlight=3940
> might help
>
>
When I tried this one, I deleted the printer okay and got this in console:
janet@linux:~/Documents> sudo aptitude update
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
Password:
sudo: aptitude: command not found
janet@linux:~/Documents> sudo aptitude update
As I don't know what it means, I am unable to work out if I am doing it
in the right place.
Peter wrote:
>Sounds like one of two things, depending on what the strange characters are.
Either you're sending postscript to it (the first character will be a
per-cent,
Hi Peter the first sign is a $ sign, but the line doesn't go all the way through.
>and you'll see line-feeds without carriage-returns until the line
goes off the right side of the page), in which case you need to include
something like enscript, or raw data are being sent instead of, say, PCL.
>You didn't say which distribution you have installed;
Suse 10.0
>most of them have printer management tools, much the easiest of which to use is cups. If you
have that installed, you can use your Web browser to manage the printer by
pointing it to http://localhost:631 and giving root's password.
I have tried admin root and su and my root password, but it won't have it.
>>Make sure the printer's connected and alive first. Then you should be able to
navigate through the browser to set it up. Have you followed the
instructions at
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/CUPSDocumentation?
Or the trouble-shooting guide? The database at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_3940 says
your printer "works mostly" and that you should have hpijs installed.
think it is installed
Did you get a .ppd file with the printer?
I don't know. I got a cd which installed it in windows.
If so you may need to copy it to
your printer-definition database, which on my box is
under /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/Kyocera/en/ from which you can see
that I have foomatic installed as well. (I'm not sure whether that's
entirely necessary, but as my setup just works I've not much incentive to
find out.) I wouldn't do that though until you've exhausted the
straightforward route.
Come back again if that's not enough...
Thanks for all your help. The other printer I ordered for someone else
has just turned up HP Photosmart C3180 all in one. It has a perfectly.
It was cheaper than the 3940. I would rather get the 3940 to work, but
may in desperation swap printers.
Regards
Janet
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