Re: Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Tim Waugh wrote:

>  On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 13:08 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>  > I recently replaced the black ink cartridge on my PSC 1510.
>  > Before it printed badly.
>  > Now it pretty much doesn't print.
>  > I can get a self-test page by pushing buttons.
>  > I cannot print a test page through CUPS.
>  > I get the message
>  > "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds".
>  > It's connected.
>
>  What does 'lpstat -v' say?  I wonder if it's using the hal: URI.  We try
>  to set up queues using usb: or hp: URIs when possible, but perhaps for
>  some reason we didn't get this one right. 
> From the use of "we", I gather that Tim Waugh is a CUPS
> developer. 
Whatever its irritations, CUPS is still a whole lot better than nothing.
Thanks.
I'll put TW's message in my CUPS notes for next time.

As noted previously, I got my printer working,
so this is probably expired data:
> From a terminal run by root:
>  [root@localhost ppd]# lpstat -v
>  device for color: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY63NC310X04GG
>  [root@localhost ppd]# ./clean -v 3
>  bash: ./clean: No such file or directory
>  [root@localhost ppd]# dirs
>  /etc/cups/ppd /usr/share/hplip
>  [root@localhost ppd]# pushd
>  /usr/share/hplip /etc/cups/ppd
>  [root@localhost hplip]# ./clean -v 3
>
>  HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
>  Printer Cartridge Cleaning Utility ver. 1.7
>
>  Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
>  This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>  This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
>  under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
>
>  Using device: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY63NC310X04GG
>  Performing type 1, level 3 cleaning...
>
>  Done. 
> From same root terminal before my CUPS problem:
>  [root@localhost hplip]# ./clean -v 3
>
>  HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
>  Printer Cartridge Cleaning Utility ver. 1.7
>
>  Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
>  This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>  This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
>  under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
>
>  warning: Inrecognized URI:
> hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4c11_MY63NC310X04GG_if1_printer_MY63NC310X04GG
>  Using device: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY63NC310X04GG
>  Performing type 1, level 3 cleaning...
>
>  Done. 
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