Re: printing problems after upgrading ghostscript

Nancy Swanson <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:20:53 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.hpofficejet.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 19:30, you wrote:
> [ I am posting this to the HPOJ list again ]
>
> This is of your old HPIJS. Uninstall your old HPIJS (usually it is
> enough to delete/rename/move away /usr/bin/hpijs or /usr/local/bin/hpijs
>   Do "hpijs -h" again, you should get "Command not found". Then
> compile/install the new HPIJS with
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> make install
>
> Now do "hpijs -h" again, and you should get the message of the new
> HPIJS. The new HPIJS should have installed PPD files, too. So do
>

returns:
Hewlett-Packard Co. Inkjet Server 1.7.1
Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Hewlett-Packard Co.


> killall -HUP cupsd

returns:
cupsd: no process killed


>
> and re-install your print queue with the appropriate printer model entry
> labled with "Foomatic + hpijs".

huh?  If this is supposed to be in Yast2, it isn't an available option.

>
>     Till
>
> Nancy Swanson wrote:
> > I downloaded hpijs-1.7.1 and installed it.  No change.  I have
> > connectivity. The hpijs driver is installed.  hpijs -h returns:
> >
> > Hewlett-Packard Co. Inkjet Server 1.1
> > Copyright (c) 2001-2002, Hewlett-Packard Co.
> >
> > (it did before too.)
> >
> > It simply won't print.  The error message is just "unable to print job
> > blah blah".  I am using lpd and not cups.  lpd almost immediately removes
> > the job from the queue.
> >
> > Nancy
> >
> > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 09:26, you wrote:
> >>Get the newest version of HPIJS from http://hpinkjet.sf.net/
> >>
> >>    Till
> >>
> >>Nancy Swanson wrote:
> >>>I recently upgraded to ghostscript 8.14 (from 6.51) and now I can't
> >>>print.  I have a PSC 750.  It seems that it wants the hpijs driver which
> >>>the "new" ghostscript doesn't have.  It only has ijs.  gs -h only
> >>> returns ijs (along with other unrelated stuff), but not hpijs, nor any
> >>> of the DJ9xx and so on.
> >>>
> >>>What to do?  (the scanner works!!)
> >>>
> >>>thanks,
> >>>Nancy
> >>
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