From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Furness Subject: HP laserjet printers and RedHat 7.3 Date: 28 Jul 2003 08:55:51 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1059378951.18510.28.camel@Zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Good morning. Has anyone managed to get a HP Laserjet 4000 and 4050 to work from RedHat linux 7.3's LPRng? We have here a fairly old machine running the print queues (amongst other things). It's running RH linux 6.2 (LPRng 3.6.12). and everything is working fine. We have 4 printers: a Tektronix phaser850, an HP LJ8150, an HP LJ4050 and an HP LJ4000. I've build a replacement server. It's new hardware, and has RH7.3 installed (plus patches), and has LPRng 3.8.9. Using redhat's configuration tools (printconf-gui and printconf-tui) I create print queues for the printers and assign to them the appropriate drivers (for example HP Laserjet 4050 - Postscript). The Tektronix and the LJ8150 work perfectly - I can print to them from linux just fine, and also from windows (using samba on the print server). However, the 4000 series printers just don't want to work. I tried different drivers (lj5gray for example) and all of them give different but unacceptable problems: sometimes, plain text test pages are all messed up or have lines missing. Sometimes, Postscript pages start fine but then generate postscript errors half way through. Windows clients are also having trouble - some drivers leave the output scrambled, but most of them simply mean that nothing at all comes out of the printer. I tried a plain Postscript driver and even a raw print queue driver, but nothing works for both linux and windows printing. It looks fairly clearly like a driver problem, but I don't seem to have a choice of drivers for these printers. Has anyone else found this problem and worked out a fix? (Don't tell me: convert to cups. The trouble is, if I do that I can't print properly from the older linux machines using lpd because it chops off some of the text, and it does it on all the printers I have). Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul.