[ale] Fedora 11 update broke my printer

[Scott Castaline]

On 09/02/2009 01:58 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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.
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In otherwords delete the configuration and recreate the printer(s) 
making sure I use the HP PPD instead of the foomatic blend?

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