msjones773 wrote:
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.
Well I'm glad it worked so fast for you. Happy printing. I've been on
Linux myself for just about a month now. Quite a learning curve. But I
do enjoy it a lot.
Mario
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