Is printing broken in FC5?

[Douglas Phillipson]

system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the 
GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the 
localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print 
to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked 
fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)

Thanks

Doug P

Is printing broken in FC5? (Solution)

[Douglas Phillipson]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the 
> GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the 
> localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print 
> to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked 
> fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P

Had to upload the firmware to the printer.  The print er now works via 
localhost:631, but system-config-printer still does not appear...

Doug P

Is printing broken in FC5? (Solution)

[Timothy Murphy]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Had to upload the firmware to the printer.  The print er now works via
> localhost:631, but system-config-printer still does not appear...

Do you know there are two different (but related) 
programs system-config-printer, one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/sbin .
I guess which you get depends on your $PATH .

Is printing broken in FC5? (Solution)

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 18:33 -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> > system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the 
> > GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the 
> > localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print 
> > to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked 
> > fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Doug P
>
> Had to upload the firmware to the printer.  The print er now works via 
> localhost:631, but system-config-printer still does not appear...
>
> Doug P

That is the cups config interface, and is the preferred method of
configuration.

in relation to your problem with the usb connection, try this.
1. disconnect the usb cable to the printer.
2. reboot the system (may not be necessary, but will be good insurance)
3. reconnect the printer
4. try printing.

If something causes the usb connection to get a different bus address it
will break the connection until the device is rescanned and reconfigured
by hal/udev/hotplug manager.  This may be your entire issue.

[Keith]

Run the command from a terminal to see if there is any output error.
 There may also may be a special debug mode for the command line so
check the documents or man pages.

HTH,

Keith

On 8/27/06, Douglas Phillipson  wrote:
> system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the
> GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the
> localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print
> to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked
> fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P

[Kam Leo]

On 8/27/06, Keith  wrote:
> Run the command from a terminal to see if there is any output error.
>  There may also may be a special debug mode for the command line so
> check the documents or man pages.
>
> HTH,
>
> Keith
>
> On 8/27/06, Douglas Phillipson  wrote:
> > system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the
> > GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the
> > localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print
> > to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked
> > fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Doug P

Do you have the hplip installed and is the service running?

[M Daniel R Magarzo]

El dom, 27-08-2006 a las 17:51 -0700, Douglas Phillipson escribió:
> system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the 
> GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the 
> localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print 
> to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked 
> fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P

You should go through Desktop > Administration > Printing (printconf
command). What I can see in my system is that system-config-printer is
just a symbolic link to the printconf command. Maybe you've got messed
up permissions or something... Check this:

[mikhail@Ulises ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/printconf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 ago 11 12:38 /usr/sbin/printconf

Apart from that, is your system updated and with no dependency
conflicts?

Is your printer directly attached to the box or maybe you're talking
about a network printer? 
It seems that there are some problems in the current stable version of
CUPS (v.1.2.2) but related with IPP protocol -as far as I know, so
printing locally shouldn't be affected.

BTW, when you talk about a USB HP 1020 you really mean HP 1120 Deskjet,
don't you? I don't know much about printer models but 1020 doesn't
appear into any list I've seen.

More, I think you should be able to configure it with some hp* driver,
not sure at all but foo2zjs sounds to me some way strange...

Anyway, you should be able to choose a GENERIC printer when configuring,
and then the Postscript driver would be a good choice..

Cheers

[M Daniel R Magarzo]

Oooppsss!  I didn't realize that there were a SOLUTION yet.

--
P.S. This usually happens when people go ahead to answer someone without
clicking the "Send/Receive" applet of their mail client: so, be warned
folks! :-)

El mar, 29-08-2006 a las 00:53 +0200, M Daniel R Magarzo escribió:
> El dom, 27-08-2006 a las 17:51 -0700, Douglas Phillipson escribió:
> > system-config-printer won't come up.  It asks for my password, but the 
> > GUI never appears.  Anybody else have this problem?  I also tried the 
> > localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print 
> > to it (it's a USB hp1020).  I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked 
> > fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Doug P
>
> You should go through Desktop > Administration > Printing (printconf
> command). What I can see in my system is that system-config-printer is
> just a symbolic link to the printconf command. Maybe you've got messed
> up permissions or something... Check this:
>
> [mikhail@Ulises ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/printconf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 ago 11 12:38 /usr/sbin/printconf
>
> Apart from that, is your system updated and with no dependency
> conflicts?
>
> Is your printer directly attached to the box or maybe you're talking
> about a network printer? 
> It seems that there are some problems in the current stable version of
> CUPS (v.1.2.2) but related with IPP protocol -as far as I know, so
> printing locally shouldn't be affected.
>
> BTW, when you talk about a USB HP 1020 you really mean HP 1120 Deskjet,
> don't you? I don't know much about printer models but 1020 doesn't
> appear into any list I've seen.
>
> More, I think you should be able to configure it with some hp* driver,
> not sure at all but foo2zjs sounds to me some way strange...
>
> Anyway, you should be able to choose a GENERIC printer when configuring,
> and then the Postscript driver would be a good choice..
>
> Cheers