Fedora Users — Re: HP printer stopped working

Thank you Mario St-Gelais, for responding so quickly. I checked out the web sites you suggested. On http://www.linuxprinting.org/ it had instructions on installing drivers, which I kind of fretted over never having done that on Linux before. Reading further it suggested to try tip number 5 first, which is running print wizard. I tried it and the print wizard already had my printer info. All I did was click on it and the wizard set it up. My printer is working fine now. Probably the up2date downloads affected my configuration somehow. Anyway, I'm posting this reply in case anyone else has the same problem when they update. Cheers Mark

Mario St-Gelais wrote:

msjones773 wrote:
Hello,
I just recently installed fedora on my win xp machine as a dual boot. I was quite pleased that the install went ok and everything seemed to work. I am completely new to Linux, but am interested by what I see.

Here's my question. I just ran apt-up2date and quite a few updates downloaded. After it was done I notice that my HP usb deskjet printer no longer prints. If I try to print from a file it looks like it queues and then nothing happens. Before the updates it would print fine. I looked in control manager and under printer I see that it is idle and rejecting jobs. Then after a while it will become active, but when I try to print again I get the same result. Under the generic driver option I can not see any of the jobs in queue, but under cups I have a list of jobs waiting to print but there is a small red x on the printer icon so I'm not sure what that means. I did try all the options though. I'm pretty sure the updates I downloaded had something to do with it but being new to Linux I am not quite sure where to start looking. Perhaps someone could steer me in the right direction. Thanks, Mark
HUM!! Just finished such a hassle. Like 5 minutes ago!! Lasted couple of weeks. I suggest you look on this list under HP LaserJet 1000 at http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/thread.html. It might give you some hint. In any case, a good place to look for is http://www.linuxprinting.org For me I had to download the driver from this site do the install and all was fine.