HP LaserJet 4050 help

SteVe Cook yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Sun Jul 15 19:56:07 UTC 2007


Wade Smart wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just given a HP LaserJet 4050. Its great. But, I cant get it 
>>>>> to run on Fiesty. Its connected via parallel cable. I clicked on 
>>>>> Printers under System, clicked New Printer. It found it and 
>>>>> installed. When I clicked Print Test Page nothing happened. It is 
>>>>> seeing the configuration of the printer but isnt printing. In the 
>>>>> Wiki someone said it was working under 5.04 so I know it works. The 
>>>>> hpijs files are already installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>
Just a thought have you tried some thing like
echo "Printer test" > dev/lp0
echo "^l" > /dev/lp0

To see if that prints.

Clear any outstanding jobs first

SteVe




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