printing issues

[Chris]

On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 08:15 +0100, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I have an HP printer which has been working flawlessly on 18.04.  I
> am now gettng the following error 
> Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
> 
> 
> In addition when I search for Printers there is no longer any listing
> for it.  Two printers show on HP device manager.  One shows a
> communication error.  I can print to the other but it is only
> printing partial pages.
> 
> I reinstalled everything named "Cups" and already installed via
> Synaptic.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
I can't see where you mentioned what HP printer you have. I've always
had problems using the HPLIP software and found out years ago that it
was much easier to install foo2zjs from here - 
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ My HP1020 Laser works just fine with it.

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Chris
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