Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:09:26 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600 Message-ID: <20090218070926.GP1126@bsd.remdog.net>
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> > > These are the four files that I have installed: > > > > foomatic-db-20070124_2 Foomatic database > > foomatic-db-engine-20070124,1 Foomatic database engine > > foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers > > foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts > > > thank rem! > following your instructions and learning that i had a corrupt ppd file, > i downloaded a new one from linuxprinting.org > > now the rip problem is gone and everything appears as though it should > work just fine. > > unfortunately, cups sees the printer as 'busy' and keeps retrying the > test page. i can ping the printer and print to it from both linux and xp > machines, but it is showing up as busy even though i shut it off and > restarted. > > i can't seem to print from the console either using lp - the job shows > up as processing or pending but nothing prints. Do you have devfs.rules in your /etc directory that has this contained within: [system=10] add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups There is a whole permissions thing that has to be correct or cups won't play. --Rem
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