[ale] Fedora 11 update broke my printer

[Jim Kinney]

dump the printer, restart the printer and the cups process driving it.
Recreate it using a PPD file from HP. Don't use the foomatic stuff in
Fedora.

I've had massive issues with HP printers "acting strange" with the
cups/foomatic defs in Fedora. Works fine in RHEL.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday all the hp related files were updated on F11. My printer
> started reacting strange last night in that certain files would not get
> printed, but would sit in queue "processing" indefinitely. This morning
> when I booted it just stopped working period. I now get
> /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed. I have tried to downgrade in yum and
> that failed. Tried cleanup of hp packages and that failed. All my
> searching only turns up this problem with USB printers, mine is network
> connected. Through the HP GUI Device Manager I am able to print the
> "Print Quality Diagnostics Page", that's it. If I do the following,
> "lpadmin -p `HP Officejet Pro l7700` -E -v
> hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7700?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" I get -bash: HP: command
> not found. I am doing this su'd to root. From the CLI I have not been
> able to get the correct URI all I've been able to get is "direct hp".
>
> When I try to execute /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp I'll get, "direct hp
> "Unknown" "HP Printer (HPLIP)"". My thinking is that the update
> clobbered something to do with the printer config. Should I attempt to
> delete the printer(s) and then recreate them, or is there something else
> that I can try?
>
> TIA
> Scott
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