Now 14.04 doesn't like my printer

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:27 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2014-09-07 0:49 GMT+02:00 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> It's worse - I can't even print by piping output to lp.  All I get is
> >> a series of blank pages.
> >
> > Did you do all the obvious things, like restart your printer etcetera?
> >
>
> Many times.  I switched the drivers around for a while and got two
> pages to print with the HL 2040 driver, but then it also quit working.
> I'm now using the hpijs-pcl5e driver and that held up until I got
> printed what I needed.
>
> I'll have to see if that still works when I get a chance, but I'm
> expecting an HP printer tomorrow that I'm hoping will solve the
> problem altogether.  I've had a lot of problems with the HL 2240,
> which was a surprise since my 2140 worked beautifully until it died.
>

In the meantime you MIGHT see if your printing is improved after installing
all the latest security updates. I noticed a bunch this week that addressed
"regressions" (bugs) caused by a previous security update to CUPS (the
printing software).
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