HP printer stopped working

[Mario St-Gelais]

msjones773 wrote:

> Thank you Mario St-Gelais, for responding so quickly. I checked out 
> the web sites you suggested. On http://www.linuxprinting.org/ it had 
> instructions on installing drivers, which I kind of fretted over never 
> having done that on Linux before. Reading further it suggested to try 
> tip number 5 first, which is running print wizard. I tried it and the 
> print wizard already had my printer info. All I did was click on it 
> and the wizard set it up. My printer is working fine now. Probably the 
> up2date downloads affected my configuration somehow. Anyway, I'm 
> posting this reply in case anyone else has the same problem when they 
> update.
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> Mario St-Gelais wrote:
>
>> msjones773 wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just recently installed fedora on my win xp machine as a dual 
>>> boot. I was quite pleased that the install went ok and everything 
>>> seemed to work. I am completely new to Linux, but am interested by 
>>> what I see.
>>>
>>> Here's my question. I just ran apt-up2date and quite a few updates 
>>> downloaded. After it was done I notice that my HP usb deskjet 
>>> printer no longer prints. If I try to print from a file it looks 
>>> like it queues and then nothing happens. Before the updates it would 
>>> print fine. I looked in control manager and under  printer I see 
>>> that it is idle and rejecting jobs. Then after a while it will 
>>> become active, but when I try to print again I get the same result. 
>>> Under the generic driver option I can not see any of the jobs in 
>>> queue, but under cups I have a list of jobs waiting to print but 
>>> there is a small red x on the printer icon so I'm not sure what that 
>>> means. I did try all the options though. I'm pretty sure the updates 
>>> I downloaded had something to do with it but being new to Linux I am 
>>> not quite sure where to start looking. Perhaps someone could steer 
>>> me in the right direction.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>> HUM!!  Just finished such a hassle.  Like 5 minutes ago!!  Lasted 
>> couple of weeks.
>> I suggest you look on this list under HP LaserJet 1000 at
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/thread.html. 
>> It might give you some hint.
>> In any case, a good place to look for is http://www.linuxprinting.org
>> For me I had to download the driver from this site do the install and 
>> all was fine.
>>
>
>
Well I'm glad it worked so fast for you.  Happy printing.  I've been on 
Linux myself for just about a month now.  Quite a learning curve.  But I 
do enjoy it a lot.

Mario

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