cups & HP color laser 1600

cups & HP color laser 1600

Postby barry-m » Jul 30th, '11, 08:52

Hi, about 1 week ago Iinstalled mageia1 on a newly formatted partition & selected kde option. 1st problem was that cups was not installed. After installing cups the printer was recognised, but will not print a test page. The msg is that the page has gone to the printer, and the jobs list shows printed, but no output. I have also tried installing the printer with hp-toolbox, this sends me to a hp site for a binary file, but does not name it and I can not identify the required file. :cry:

These problems should not occur on a stand alone box with a clean install :evil: :evil:

I also tried uninstalling cups. This resulted in deleting many pkgs including drakconfig, libreoffice among many others. The packagers should look at this problem.

Thank god I did not try to upgrade my Mandriva installation which is still fully functional.

All help appreciated.

Barry
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Re: cups & HP color laser 1600

Postby David_Batson » Jul 31st, '11, 05:17

My guess would be that the device (printer) URI is incorrect. Try modifying printer in cups and when you get to where you choose the printer, look under "Local Printers:" for your printer to be listed. Choose that (not the current connection).

Code: Select all
Modify MFC7340
Current Connection:                        usb:/dev/usb/lp0
Local Printers:                            Brother/MFC-7340
                                           SCSI Printer
Discovered Network Printers:   

Other Network Printers:                    Backend Error Handler
                                           AppSocket/HP JetDirect
                                           Windows Printer via SAMBA
                                           Internet Printing Protocol (http)
                                           Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
                                           LPD/LPR Host or Printer

Next, choose the current driver on the next screen.

Here is the URI for my Brother Printer...
URI: usb://Brother/MFC-7340?serial=000K9N448473

After the printer is installed in CUPS, choose Modify printer to change it.

EDIT: Your printer has to be connected for you to be able to modify it easily.
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