setting up HP 4050 with network adapter

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
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> I was on the phone earlier and I was playing around with the menu on the
> printer. I found out how to set a IP address. I set the address to
> 192.168.1.80 and then went to that ip in my browser and - it connected!
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> I used:
> ipp://192.168.1.80:9100/printers/PAL5U006
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> and though it takes a while to get printing - it finally did it!!
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> Well, I thought it did.
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> This is what it prints instead of what I want to print:
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> POST /printers/PAL5U006 HTTP/1.1
> Content-Length: 303
> Content-Type: application/ipp
> Host: 192.168.1.80
> User-Agnet: CUPS/1.3.7
> Expect: 100-continue
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> And the next line it prints is two lines on top of another maybe three
> times. The document I was test printing is still in the queue  for 6min
> and is still pending.
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> The printer keeps spooling up and printing the same page again and again.

You can ignore that message in syslog.  Sounds like a protocol (or
driver) problem to me.

Make sure you can telnet to the printer:
telnet <printer_ip> 9100

If that works, try something like (a bit rusty here):
cat /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps | nc <printer_ip> 9100

If you get an error about "no command nc", install netcat via apt or synpatic.

If that works (or if it doesn't - I'm not 100% sure that will work
anyway;), it's time to move on to CUPS configuration - I'd delete the
current printer and run through it again.  Are you using the web
interface (http://localhost:631) or the Sys->Admin->Printing to set it
up?  Either way, select HP JetDirect.

Chris