kornakowski
2006-12-30, 04:43 PM CST
Hi
I hope that someone out there can help me. I would be very grateful for any suggestions and thanks for taking the time to read my posting. (I have tried searching around on the net but not managed to find a relevant posting.)
I have recently upgraded from fedora core 3 to fc 6. I have a HP PSC 1610 all-in-one printer. When I start up system-config-printer I see two entries PSC_1600_series which was added by HAL and psc-1600-series-l created by redhat-config-printer 0.6x. Both entries are for the same printer.
I think that the first (PSC_1600_series) is the entry created by fc 6. If I print the test page from there it works fine. However, I tried changing the default printer to this one, but regardless printing from emacs or firefox goes to psc-1600-series-l. The print jobs just sit in the queue for that imaginary printer :). Note that system-config-printer says that the state for both printers is "Default Printer" but below that for the PSC_1600_series printer entry, the Make Default Printer button is greyed out, whereas for psc-1600-series-l it isn't.
If I use "lpr -PPSC_1600_series file.txt" the printing works.
I tried "export PRINTER=PSC_1600_series" but in that case the jobs continue to go to the wrong printer.
I could delete the psc-1600-series-l printer entry via system-config-printer but I wanted to get a sanity check from people better than I before I delete the entry that used to work fine in fc3. Also I have no idea whether it will do any good. (It does not allow me to print a test page from psc-1600-series-l)
Here are the details of the printer status:
[root@kornakowski ~]# /usr/sbin/lpc
lpc> status
psc-1600-series-1:
printer is on device 'hal' speed -1
queuing is disabled
printing is disabled
no entries
daemon present
PSC_1600_series:
printer is on device 'hal' speed -1
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
daemon present
lpc>
Some extra details that may help:
Other system-config-printer details
PSC-1600-series
hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4811_MY59MF42WZL0_if1_printer_MY59M F42WZL0
HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
psc-1600-series-1
Device URl: hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_3f0_4811_100_-1_MY59MF42WZL0_1
Make and Model: HP PSC 1600 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
I have a dual boot Dell Dimension 8250 running dual boot FC6/XP
Thanks again
I hope that someone out there can help me. I would be very grateful for any suggestions and thanks for taking the time to read my posting. (I have tried searching around on the net but not managed to find a relevant posting.)
I have recently upgraded from fedora core 3 to fc 6. I have a HP PSC 1610 all-in-one printer. When I start up system-config-printer I see two entries PSC_1600_series which was added by HAL and psc-1600-series-l created by redhat-config-printer 0.6x. Both entries are for the same printer.
I think that the first (PSC_1600_series) is the entry created by fc 6. If I print the test page from there it works fine. However, I tried changing the default printer to this one, but regardless printing from emacs or firefox goes to psc-1600-series-l. The print jobs just sit in the queue for that imaginary printer :). Note that system-config-printer says that the state for both printers is "Default Printer" but below that for the PSC_1600_series printer entry, the Make Default Printer button is greyed out, whereas for psc-1600-series-l it isn't.
If I use "lpr -PPSC_1600_series file.txt" the printing works.
I tried "export PRINTER=PSC_1600_series" but in that case the jobs continue to go to the wrong printer.
I could delete the psc-1600-series-l printer entry via system-config-printer but I wanted to get a sanity check from people better than I before I delete the entry that used to work fine in fc3. Also I have no idea whether it will do any good. (It does not allow me to print a test page from psc-1600-series-l)
Here are the details of the printer status:
[root@kornakowski ~]# /usr/sbin/lpc
lpc> status
psc-1600-series-1:
printer is on device 'hal' speed -1
queuing is disabled
printing is disabled
no entries
daemon present
PSC_1600_series:
printer is on device 'hal' speed -1
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
daemon present
lpc>
Some extra details that may help:
Other system-config-printer details
PSC-1600-series
hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4811_MY59MF42WZL0_if1_printer_MY59M F42WZL0
HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
psc-1600-series-1
Device URl: hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_3f0_4811_100_-1_MY59MF42WZL0_1
Make and Model: HP PSC 1600 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
I have a dual boot Dell Dimension 8250 running dual boot FC6/XP
Thanks again