Strange printing problem

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Hi Brian
Peace be upon you.

বৃহস্পতি, ২৪ জানু, ২০১৯ তারিখে ১০:০৬ PM টায় এ Brian <b_lists at patandbrian.org>
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> I have two printers accessible to me, one is an H-P OfficeJet which is
> connected wirelessly to my LAN, the second is an H-P Laserjet which is
> on a USB connection to my wife's (Debian) PC and then shared. I can
> use both printers from every application I've tried *except* for one.
> If I try to print something from within the Lazarus IDE (that's the
> Pascal development package) then it works just fine with the
> OfficeJet, but if I try to print to the LaserJet (which is what I want
> to do most of the time) it just hangs. Looking at the print queue just
> shows the job as 'Processing', but that never changes, the only way to
> free up the printer again is to abort the job.
>
> I've asked on the Lazarus forums about this, but with no reply, so I
> thought I'd try here. I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 18 LTS, my wife's PC
> (due to a BIOS incompatibility) is still running ancient Debian
> Wheezy, all attempts to upgrade it having failed. It seems really
> weird that it's just the one application which fails to print and only
> on one of the two printers.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas?
>

Hmm. Really strange. Connect your Laserjet with USB to your Ubuntu PC and
try to print from the Lazarus IDE. And let us know. If that works fine then
issue is your printer driver with the old debian system and cups.

with regards.
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