HP photosmart 1215 printer issues
Terry Polzin
foxec208 at wowway.com
Fri Apr 9 18:19:40 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:10 -0700, Les wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> I am also having a printer problem. I let my printer run out of
> ink
> and let the messages queue up for a week, then bought the cartridges. I
> plugged one in and the queue won't restart, and shows the message about
> the printer being low on ink and the queue stopped.
>
> I have also tried the tape over bits fix and repeatedly powered up and
> down the system and printer in various combinations, with and without
> the cable in place. I really don't want to loose the stuff in the
> queue, so I am hesitant to go any farther without help.
>
> Hplip shows the new and correct ink levels.
>
> Cups says it has stopped the printer due to low ink, but then says the
> printer doesn't report marker levels (clearly untrue because hplip finds
> them)
>
> I have finally gotten hplip to initialize the queue and show it as
> accepting jobs, but I am out of ideas, out of web based solutions,
> and unsure if the f12 patch will install on F11?
>
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
lpstat -t
if queue is DOWN
enable [queue]
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