printer problems

[Eric S. Johansson]

KC1DI wrote:
> Anyone got the hp 722c printer working in 5.10?  Have tried about 
> everything and still no printer.
> Dave

no.  There seems to be a flaw with the HP printer driver.  I've also had 
similar problems with hp4m printers.  the errors I get in the log are:

Oct 24 07:37:21 localhost no_device_found: INFO: open device failed; 
will retry in 30 seconds...
Oct 24 07:37:51 localhost no_device_found: unable to send Event 
hp:/no_device_found 5 5012: Broken pipe

and....

Oct 24 12:34:16 localhost no_device_found: unable to send DeviceOpen: 
Broken pipe: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 410
Oct 24 12:34:16 localhost no_device_found: unable to send Event 
hp:/no_device_found 8 5012: Broken pipe

unfortunately I no longer have access to the system because the customer 
that was using it decided to go back to Windows.  They made the change 
to Windows as a result of printing failing, problems with Samba (Samba 
authentication separate from system authentication, share definition 
challenges, etc.) and a thousand little cuts we tolerate (lvm2 quirks, 
obtuse monitoring of raid array health, poor quality rendering of web 
pages,level of work necessary for flash, Java, mp3, QuickTime, wma, etc).

I think I'm going to do a blog entry called "for want of a printer port, 
a Linux sale was lost".  I think I have enough material. ;-)

--- eric