USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

[dibl]

Re: USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

Thanks, k -- I never knew about escputil. I installed it and ran it, and it output a very normal-looking report, including the fact that one of my ink cartridges is low.

Thinking I might "learn by comparing", I booted sidux and ran the CUPS utility there. I noticed that the driver is reported to be "CUPS + Gutenprint 5.xxx". Hmmmmm -- that could be significant. For Kubuntu, it is just "CUPS".

Probably the best bet is to just wait a bit. There was one previous version of Kubuntu where they omitted the driver for my particular Epson model, and I had to go compile it myself. But this may be just a packaging thing related to the Beta release -- and I don't use that printer for weeks on end anyway. I'll be patient and see what happens with the updates between now and the 9.04 release. Thanks to all for the advice.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3097746.0

[dibl]

Re: USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

Thanks!

I got all excited tonight when I ran updates and saw an update to the python-cups package. But, still no joy.

[kpenrose]

Re: USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

I upgraded to jaunty from intrepid yesterday, and I can no longer print to my hp5610 connected via usb. Every time I try to print everything I get "Communication error" messages and the printer status tool shows "printer may not be connected." I have tried reinstalling both the python-qt4-dbus package and the system-config-printer-kde packages to no avail. Also, today there were a bunch of cups updates, but that didn't fix the problem either.
Funny thing is, the cups error logs don't show much, but the syslog file has the following:
io/hpmud/musb.c 135: unable get_string_descriptor -1: Operation not permitted
io/hpmud/musb.c 603: invalid product id string ret=-1
io/hpmud/musb.c 1104: unable to open hp:/usb/Officejet_5600_series?serial=CN7BDF612304CY
prnt/backend/hp.c 676: INFO: open device failed stat=12; will retry in 30 seconds...


Anyone else seeing similar behavior? With Intrepid I thought kubuntu finally got printing right! Now I'm in worse shape than ever.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[kpenrose]

Re: USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

Noticed errors in the kern.log file also:
hpijs[13466]: segfault at 25f ip 08069ff0 sp bfd3f4bc error 4 in hpijs[8048000+54000]

that looks more ominous than the other errors. a segfault in the hp driver, I think.

[M@GO LoBEL]

Re: USB Printer not working -- anyone else?

Me too, a Lexmark Z605 installed, the file is send, the icon in the dock appear, but the printer do not work.