printer problems

[inhabitant of zion]

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Hi

Thx guys...

I fixed it in a very round the houses route.

I installed feisty, sorted the issues with my 3dfx voodoo 3 card (Its
not the best. But then the card has never worked very well under Ubuntu
- - its about as stable as a peg legged pirate after a barrel of rum!),
with the current version of gnome cups manager in feisty the printing works.

Oddly if I network share the printer it even works under edgy on my
other two workstations which just about takes the biscuit in my opinion!

If I connected the printer direct to them they would not even recognise
it but over a network share its all fine and dandy.

Grrr computers!!!!




Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
>> On (09/02/07 15:20), inhabitant of zion wrote:
>>> I have a Deskjet 720C which won;t print anymore since I updated 6.06. If
>>> I try to install it as a local user I get from /var/log/cups/error_log -
>>>
>>> E [07/Feb/2007:16:56:06 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication
>>> certificate not found!
>>> E [07/Feb/2007:16:56:06 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication
>>> certificate not found!
>>> E [07/Feb/2007:17:47:04 +0000] [Job 18] No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!
>>> E [07/Feb/2007:17:47:08 +0000] [Job 18] /ioerror in --.outputpage--
>>> E [07/Feb/2007:17:47:08 +0000] PID 21758
>>> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
>> OK a couple of things to try:
>>
>> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure cupsys
>>
>> if that doesn't get you further forward try:
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude purge cupsys
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude install cupsys
>>
>> I assume the printer is connect directly to your box via usb?  Once
>> you've tried the above.  In a browser go to:
>>
>> http://localhost:631
>>
>> There are various options there to reconfigure the printers; you may
>> need to reinstall the ptinter.  If you can't get to cups via the
>> browser, add yourself to the shadow group.
>>
>> Good luck :)
>>
>> Clive
>>
>>
> ...and do not forget to follow John Graddy's advice in regard to hplip. 
> If your printer is supported by hplip (you can find out on the hplip 
> webpage) I am confident, it will work!
> 
> Good luck from me, as well
> 
> regards
> Eberhard
> 
> 

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