fedora 17 hates me

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/11/2012 05:12 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Though I had my printer connected and turned on during the install,
> only print-to-file was allowed by default.
> I had to add a printer explicitly.
> There appears to be o documented way to do that from Xfce.
> Had I not remembered port 631, I would not have been able to do so.
> It didn't work.
> It printed, but only gibberish, including the test page.
> That seemed a familiar problem, but I did not remember how to handle it.
> Eventually, I remembered hplip and told yum to install it.
> Still no go.
> When I tell the GUI I have an HPLIP printer,
> "See "Network Printers" for the correct URI to use with your printer."
> http://localhost:631/ipp does not work, no such URI.
> http://127.0.0.1:631/ipp does not work either.
> There is no error message, it just does not print. 

Since you have an HP printer and have installed hplip (along with hplip-gui?) you
probably should go the easy route and run "hp-setup" as root to install your printer. 

I have an HP 6500 all-in-one printer installed and working fine.  It was configured
using hp-setup and the /etc/cups/printers.conf contains

DeviceURI hp:/net/Officejet_6500_E709n?ip=192.168.0.195

for the printer and

DeviceURI hpfax:/net/Officejet_6500_E709n?ip=192.168.0.195

for the fax.

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