CUPS/Foomatic & HP DeskJet 810C

pauk · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 9:32 am Post subject: CUPS/Foomatic & HP DeskJet 810C

G'day, I've run into a little problem while configuring my printer. I previously installed my DeskJet 810C (USB) by following the Gentoo Print guide. For some strange reason, I wasn't able to print using CUPS. I figured I'd try to start from scratch, so I unmerged cups, foomatic and hpijs, then emerged them.

I've found the required information from the foomatic files. I run the command foomatic-configure -s cups -p 156105 -c /dev/usb/lp0 -n DeskJet -d hpijs to install the printer, however I get the following error:

lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible
Could not set up/change the queue "DeskJet"!.

Could anybody offer any insight?

Thanks in advance!

crimson · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 9:42 am Post subject:

I've had similar problems getting my HP Deskjet 712c to work. The last time I got that error, using -c file:/dev/lp0 worked instead of just /dev/lp0

here is what I used:

pauk · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 10:44 am Post subject:

Thanks for that, the printer is installed! Unfortunately, now I'm encounting another bug:

The printer is installed via CUPS, and is showing up on the web interface. However, when I go to print a test page, CUPS says the job was sent to the printer, but there's no printing happening.

I view the job list, and it says there's no jobs queued. I then click on completed jobs, and the following appears:

DeskJet-2 Test Page root 15k cancelled at
Sun May 4 20:40:58 2003

(DeskJet-2 was the name of the job)

I can't print from any other applications either. The error is the same.

pauk · Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 1:31 am Post subject:

Hooray, it's now working!

I had to re-emerge ghostscript, then I restarted cups and it's printing just fine.

Thanks to those that helped/were going to help me.

crimson · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:36 am Post subject:

You're welcome. I'm glad you got that working.