On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 13:08 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I recently replaced the black ink cartridge on my PSC 1510. > > Before it printed badly. > > Now it pretty much doesn't print. > > I can get a self-test page by pushing buttons. > > I cannot print a test page through CUPS. > > I get the message > > "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds". > > It's connected. > > What does 'lpstat -v' say? I wonder if it's using the hal: URI. We try > to set up queues using usb: or hp: URIs when possible, but perhaps for > some reason we didn't get this one right. >From the use of "we", I gather that Tim Waugh is a CUPS developer. Whatever its irritations, CUPS is still a whole lot better than nothing. Thanks. I'll put TW's message in my CUPS notes for next time. As noted previously, I got my printer working, so this is probably expired data: >From a terminal run by root: > [root@localhost ppd]# lpstat -v > device for color: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY63NC310X04GG > [root@localhost ppd]# ./clean -v 3 > bash: ./clean: No such file or directory > [root@localhost ppd]# dirs > /etc/cups/ppd /usr/share/hplip > [root@localhost ppd]# pushd > /usr/share/hplip /etc/cups/ppd > [root@localhost hplip]# ./clean -v 3 > > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a) > Printer Cartridge Cleaning Utility ver. 1.7 > > Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP > This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it > under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. > > Using device: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY63NC310X04GG > Performing type 1, level 3 cleaning... > > Done. >From same root terminal before my CUPS problem: > [root@localhost hplip]# ./clean -v 3 > > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a) > Printer Cartridge Cleaning Utility ver. 1.7 > > Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP > This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it > under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. > > warning: Inrecognized URI: hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4c11_MY63NC310X04GG_if1_printer_MY63NC310X04GG > Using device: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY63NC310X04GG > Performing type 1, level 3 cleaning... > > Done. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Horse guts never lie." -- Cherek Bear-Shoulders
