usb printer

[Joseph]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 08:39 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> [snip]
>   
>>     If it IS the default and it doesn't work, then since HP is so good, what is left but a bad printer?
>>     
>
> Corrupted printer driver, incorrect configuration, unsupported printer(HP has them as well), bad cable, failing/bad USB port on the PC...
>
> Most of these can be easily taken care of with simple checks... but as the OP has already solved his problem by installing a newer version of hplip from http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/gethplip.html , my suspicion is that the printer was unsupported/badly supported under the version of hplip 3.9.2 that shipped with ubuntu...
>   

Andrew, I thought I'd replied to this, but I don't see it in my 
folder...   I did indeed install the new hplip, and it still is not 
working.  The printer was indeed working nicely, both scanning, and 
printing....   so it was apparently well supported at first.

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Joseph Snurr
Cotter, AR.

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