Printer configuration - HP 3550

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 21 06:46:35 UTC 2005


I'm having no luck setting up an HP 3550 color laserjet. This is a cheap 
P.O.S. that doesn't support postscript, so it needs to use a rasterizer, 
  like ghostscript.

I ran the printer configuration utility and didn't find HP 3550 in the 
list of printers, bad sign. So I went to linuxprinting.org, checked the 
specs that said the printer works perfectly, and downloaded a PPD file. 
After installing the PPD, the printer showed up in the config list.

I selected the hpijs driver, as recommended, and finished the 
installation. When I try to print a test page, I get the following 
errors in the cups error log and nothing prints.

I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:28 -0700] Saving printers.conf...
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:28 -0700] New printer 'HP3550' added by 'root'.
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:33 -0700] Started 
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=6409)
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Started 
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=6410)
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Adding start banner page "none" to job 5.
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Adding end banner page "none" to job 5.
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Job 5 queued on 'HP3550' by 'root'.
E [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Unable to convert file 0 to printable 
format for job 5!
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
I [12/Apr/2005:17:30:36 -0700] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug".

I see the hint about "ESP Ghostscript", but I have no idea if it is 
installed or not, it certainly isn't installed with the name "ESP 
Ghostscript". I'd love to set the LogLevel to "debug", but I don't know 
how to do this.

I've also used the cups web interface to configure the printer, with the 
same failure.

Any clues will be appreciated.

Thanks,

John Wendel




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