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The Doctor Moderator
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:00 am Post subject: Hp Officejet 4500 is failing to print [given up - solved] |
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I have an HP Officejet 4500 connected via Ethernet.
I had to manually enter the ip address to get the hplip application to see it. There is no router, just a basic local area network setup by my box. I can scan, but when I try to print a test page I get about 10 pages with JZJZ4♥$ZZ printed in the upper left corner (I cancelled it before more pages where ruined).
Here is how hplip and cups are built: Code: | net-print/cups-1.6.1 USE="X acl avahi dbus filters gnutls java kerberos pam ssl threads usb zeroconf -debug -python (-selinux) -static-libs -systemd -xinetd" LINGUAS="-ca -es -ja"
net-print/hplip-3.12.9-r1 USE="X hpcups hpijs libnotify parport qt4 scanner snmp -doc -fax -kde -minimal -policykit -static-ppds" |
and hp-check only complains about policykit not being installed, which is intentional.
The quarter starts in a few days and I really need to get this working. A USB cable is out of the question because the printer needs to be about 2 meters from the computer and I don't have one long enough.
If you need any more information, please ask. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help.
EDIT: given the time scale on which I need this to work I have purchased a USB cable and have given up on the network cable. While I cannot confirm that this is the solution to the problem, it seems removing the hpjis use flag may be the correct solution. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box.
Last edited by The Doctor on Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:56 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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alienjon Veteran
Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:01 am Post subject: |
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I had this problem recently in Ubuntu when setting up remote printing through Vista - so this might be a bit different from your network. The solution for me was to change the driver used in CUPS (I had the wrong one selected). |
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The Doctor Moderator
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:27 am Post subject: |
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alienjon wrote: | I had this problem recently in Ubuntu when setting up remote printing through Vista - so this might be a bit different from your network. The solution for me was to change the driver used in CUPS (I had the wrong one selected). |
In hind sight, I do agree that this may well have been the issue, but hplip was properly identifying the model I expected better on the driver matching. After I changed to USB I recompiled hplip with -hpijs and the proper usb driver was selected.
In any case, one new usb cable and 15 pieces of paper and the printer is working. I hesitate to mark this thread as [solved] since I never actually got it to work using Ethernet.
Thank you for the response. I really do appreciate it. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box.
Last edited by The Doctor on Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:55 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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morten.dynamite n00b
Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Charlottenberg, Sweden
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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I have an HP Photosmart B109n with the exact same problem.
I solved it by using hpcups instead of hpijs driver the hp-setup tool choose hpijs if both are available.
You can try to recompile hplip with USE="-hpijs" and install the printer with hp-setup. |
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