[CentOS] non-functioning printer

On Thu, 13 May 2021, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

> On 5/13/21 11:51 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> In an attempt to diagnose a friend's HP Deskjet D1420,
>> I'm running a Centos 6.10 LiveDVD.
>> The readily visible symptom is that it will
>> accept a job and claim to be printing it,
>> but nothing ever gets printed, not even a test page.
>> The same happens on her Ubuntu system.

> Printers usually have "print test page" soemewhere in their own menu. Before 
> attempting to connect anything to printer I would test that first.

If this machine has a menu anywhere, I cannot find it.
Print test page from localost:631 gives me the same unending print.

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