Any printer for portable documents won't print to HP laserjet6P

[woodsmoke]

This is just strange.

I have two printers one is a LPT Laserjet 6P which has ALWAYS worked with ANY Linux period end of story. AND it print(ed) notice the (ed) from a document, browser you name it.

I have printed the college's "mideterm" and "final" grades for several years now with it.

I also have an HPF350 multi function USB and it also prints.

Today, using Firefox I was not able to print the mid term grades using the Laserjet 6P and it won't print from within "blackboard" the college's site, and it will also not print from the FF browser.

When I go to "page setup" it has a "printer box" that is labled:

Any Printer for portable documents.

Within the box are the two printers presented as options.

I can select the Laserjet 6P but it still won't print.

The Laserjet 6P says it is "online"
The HP F350 says "ready to print".

Now, the question is.....is this a situation with FF or with MM or a combination of the two? Possibly a driver that MM chose? hpijs 3.1.6 (I can't find if it is gutenprint, cups whatever for some reason).

I have NEVER...........NEVER seen a "printer box" like that. And even had to look up the term "printer for portable documents" and then realized that it was talking about .pdf.

So... does Firefox 3.6.15 now ASSUME that all documents printed from the browser are going to be PDFs? Because I can find no settings, or preferences or anything in FF that will allow me to chose the "kind" of printer like...

a) printer for portable documents
b) any printer

Or is this something that is an interaction between MM and FF?

And the reason I say that is that I can print this page driectly from Rekonq, I just did it as a test so it can't be something about the complexity of the page...OR even the printer driver gutenprint/cups/whatever

any comments?

woodwonderingsmoke

[Detonate]

Re: Any printer for portable documents won't print to HP laserjet6P

I just printed to both my printers from FF4 to see if I could duplicate your problem. Worked fine. The popup you see about portable documents is just a place to set the default page settings for each of your printers. What version of FF are you using?

[woodsmoke]

Re: Any printer for portable documents won't print to HP laserjet6P

FF 3.6.15

woodsmoke

[Detonate]

Re: Any printer for portable documents won't print to HP laserjet6P

I just printed from FF 3.6.17 without problems. Note that i am using Ubuntu, not Kubuntu, so maybe it is a KDE thing. You might just try reinstalling the printers. Or reinstalling FF. If you run fFF from the CLI and try to print with it, are there any useful error messages in the terminal?

[woodsmoke]

Re: Any printer for portable documents won't print to HP laserjet6P

I haven't done any of those things so I shall.

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

Re: Any printer for portable documents won't print to HP laserjet6P

Hi Detonate:

Running it from terminal the HP laserjet 6P(parallel) has nothing by it, when I click it, it FLASHES "getting information" and then that disappears, there is nothing next to it, but it does print.
The F380 multifunction usb says nothing next to when i click it it does not "flash" but when I try to print it does print.

So....ok....

I'll try reinstalling stuff later.

woodsmoke