HP laserjet 4

[pcrene]

Hello All,

Has anyone experience with an USN->Centronics cable and connect this to a printer.
I have a loveley old HP Laserjet 4P with allot of spare cardridges i want to use...

rene

[pcrene]

The story continues...

bought an USB ->Centronics adapter..
connected it to the Bubba and the HP4L.. the Bubba saw the printer immideately..good..

Added the networkprinter to my laptop...worked fine too...

But printing....nothing....anyone ideas?

In what log should i look for the problem?

Rene

[tor]

Hi Rene,

From which operating system do you try to print? Windows, Linux Mac?

/Tor

[pcrene]

Hello Tor,

Its just win-XP SP2..

Rene

[pcrene]

Hello Tor,

if you need data or acces to B2: rene@rrutten.nl

Rene

[pcrene]

Hello Thor,

some extra info:

E [31/May/2009:04:28:08 +0000] PID 9239 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) crashed on signal 9!
E [31/May/2009:13:19:49 +0000] Pause-Printer: Unauthorized
E [31/May/2009:13:19:54 +0000] Resume-Printer: Unauthorized

Rene

[tor]

Hi again Rene,

This sounds like a driver problem or that we have problems with the converter.

Could you start by attaching the converter and printer to your PC and see if that works?

/Tor

[pcrene]

Hello Tor,

smart of you to have me testing this cable/printer combination on my laptop... unfortunately it worked immideately without any problem.

Rene

[pcrene]

Hello Tor,

Cups reports:
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:23:22 +0000] "GET /ppd/hplaser.ppd HTTP/1.1" 404 0 - -
localhost - root [05/Jun/2009:10:23:22 +0000] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 123 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:23:22 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 129 CUPS-Get-Classes successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:24:30 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 266 Get-Jobs successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:25:13 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 266 Get-Jobs successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:25:43 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 266 Get-Jobs successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:26:23 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 266 Get-Jobs successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:26:53 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 129 CUPS-Get-Classes successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Jun/2009:10:27:11 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 266 Get-Jobs successful-ok
the last lines over and over again

Cups error reports:
E [05/Jun/2009:10:22:54 +0000] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
E [05/Jun/2009:10:23:22 +0000] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized

Rene

[pcrene]

has anyone besides me tried this option

Rene

[tor]

Hi again Rene,

As a further test, could you try to remove the configured printer on bubba and try adding it again using the native Cups web-interface? Should be reachable via http://bubba:631/ and you most likely should install the hpijs package http://packages.debian.org/etch/hpijs and move the whole print driver to bubba instead. (This is not an optimal solution) And then try printing a testpage from cups admin.

/Tor

[pcrene]

Hello tor,

It works now...i saw in cups that the wrong driver was automatically added, by changing it manually to the correct hp driver AND port it works now.

thx Rene