On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:16:40PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Fred Smith wrote:
I just saw that. I now have it so that it prints a few pages, then locks up the printer. Funny, it worked just fine under CentOS5, now under CentOS 6, it won't? That's weird. Do you, or anyone else, have any suggestions?
Have you tried different printer drivers other than the one that's "recommended"?
Here is one example: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/wine/dosdevices/z:/usr/share/...
How about HPLIP? if you do not have it installed, I'd recomment doing so before trying other drivers. it should "just work".
Using HPLIp...it's been years since I have set up a printer on CentOS. Is that using the localhost:631 website? Tried that, still got the same result.
Gilbert
No, 631 is for access to the web server built into CUPS.
HPLIP is a printer driver toolkit provided by HP that installs and manages the "official" HP drivers for (nearly) all their printers, on Linux systems.
try "yum install hplip".
I've got four hplip packages, I don't recall if the above command grabs them all or not, so here's what I've got installed:
hpijs.x86_64 1:3.13.7-6.el7 @anaconda hplip.x86_64 3.13.7-6.el7 @base hplip-common.x86_64 3.13.7-6.el7 @anaconda hplip-gui.x86_64 3.13.7-6.el7 @base hplip-libs.x86_64 3.13.7-6.el7 @anaconda
note there's also a hpijs package. don't know if you need it or not, but you might!
good luck!