problem with fc 13 and hplip

Barry txscope at fastmail.fm
Mon Nov 1 18:25:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:34 +0000, "Tim Waugh" <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 10:44 -0400, Barry wrote:
> > I followed Manuel's suggestion, uninstalled the HPLIP that I had, and
> > reinstalled the hplip rpms. And I end up in the same situation. I can
> > print very simple files, local text files, pdfs and a simple web page on
> > the host machine. I cannot print a web page of any complexity from
> > Firefox. I plugged the printer into the host machine, installed the
> > printer, and it prints fine from the host. I was able to install the
> > printer on the guest, and print a test page, but cannot print from
> > Firefox. Otherwise networking is fine on the guest.
> 
> Is it an HP LaserJet 3050?  Is that a PostScript-capable printer?
> 
> HPLIP provides two drivers for that model: a PostScript driver and a
> PCL3 driver.  The gutenprint-cups package also provides another
> (raster-based) driver.
> 
> Have you tried those other drivers?
> 
> There's some information on the wiki about debugging printing problems
> that might be useful otherwise:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging
> 
> Tim.
>

Yes, the Laserjet, and I've always used the postscript drivers, several
machines, different platforms. But I just tried the PCL3 driver and it
too is weird. I printed a test page with it that came out with all the
graphics. I was able to print one web page, but not another -- however,
this time I got an error that said it was an empty file. 

Barry

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