Issue Printing in OpenOffice.Org on HP LaserJet P3005n

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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"Simon Ruiz" <sruiz at mccsc.edu> writes:

> We just got some new printers, HP LaserJet P3005n's 

yikes!  i don't have any specific suggestions for you, i'm afraid, but
i've had a serious problem with the P3005n with ubuntu 6.06.  We
actually ended up returning the model that we got to the vendor.

Some of my travails are documented here:

  https://docs.astro.columbia.edu/wiki/beetle
  https://docs.astro.columbia.edu/ticket/443

the highlight: i was told by HP support that "sometimes the print
server will crash because of the network it is on", with the
implication that this is perfectly normal and acceptable.  I
acknowledged that the network cable needed to be within electrical
specifications, but they said that the data sent over the network
itself could crash their print server.

For a network-enabled device in anything approaching a public
environment, that's obviously unacceptable.

anyway, beware of that printer.

        --dkg
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