Bug 138333
| Summary: | HP Color LaserJet 8500 series cannot print | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel> |
| Component: | cups | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-09 13:56:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Nico Kadel-Garcia
2004-11-08 12:43:49 UTC
*** Bug 138334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 138335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Please specify the method you are using the set up this printer and assign a driver to it. Are you using the CUPS interface directly, or using the Fedora system-config-printer tool to set up the queue? I'm using the system-config-printer tool on a brand-new installed
machine and on various other machines. Ye ghods, I hate that cups
interface: it simply doesn't include basic utilities like setting
default printers or controlling the "sharing" of printers gracefully.
I've also tried grabbing the configuration from a known working FC2
system using:
ssh working-machine "/usr/sbin/printconf-tui --Xexport"
| /usr/sbin/printconf-tui --Ximport
This got me a working setup for non-color printers, but it doesn't
work either for the HP Color LaserJet 8500 series printers that I
really need to support. It's a real deployment killer bug in my
environment.
Oh, and if you think I'm kidding about that CUPS interface, check out Eric Raymond's extensive article on these issues at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html. I do appreciate your overall very good work with the system-config- printer tools, and your discarding of the weird LPD/CUPS parallel implementations. Please can you confirm that you are using the "HP C LaserJet 8550"
model selection, with "omni-compiled" as the driver?
> Actual results: Various error messages occur
Please detail those so that I can diagnose. Thanks.
I can confirm the "HP C LaserJet 8550" driver, omni-compiled, as the driver. Unfortunately for my testing purposes, I'm operating from home right now and the furshlugginer GTK based system-config-* tools don't seem to operaate well over remote X or VNC sessions, with inability to select display the options of certain toolbars in normal X sessions and inability to activate the "Close" buttons over VNC sessions. I'll submit those bugs separately, and provide the exact error message tomorrow. As a workaround, I can get by by using the HP Color LaserJet 8550GN driver, which also has the options in its configuration for double- sided printing which the plain HP C LaserJet 8550 driver options lack. This is the default driver now. |