My cup runneth.....not

[veritas]

I have an hp p1000 printer. I can get things to print, but if I DARE to try to cancel a print, the CUPS Gods curse me greatly and smite me also upon mine ego.

Specifically, the "cancel print" command simply doesn't do anything. It will stop the print, but unless I completely reboot, the job will be sitting there and will let nothing else come past it. Even a force quite just makes the printer icon go away. When I try to print something else, the job is still sitting there....Mocking me.....

Now, I actually have seen this sort of things with HP's in windows, so I really don't know if it's a cups issue or not, but then the cup runneth joke wouldn't work.

anyway, as a new linux user...printing is kind of important and HP is not really an obscure brand...there's probably all sorts of tutorials out there...can anyone point me in the right direction?

[mrtaber]

Try the Linux Printing site (http://www.linuxprinting.org/) ; it's a great place to start, if nothing else. Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Mark Taber

[veritas]

I don't remember how I configured the first time, but I went through all these steps this time and saw the fruits of my labor from last time, which I'm deleting. I haven't fully tested it, but by installing as per the site you gave me things seem smoother and faster. Thanks a lot!

[veritas]

Well, it prints, but cancelling is still an issue. Guess I'll just have to be careful.

[veritas]

I don't know what I did but I have completely broken Fedora as you are not supposed to be able to. I installed the printer driver as per the instructions in the link above. It worked great. Then I was doing something unrelated, trying to install Nvidia drivers. That completely blew up my system, and it took me forever to be able to even get the X desktop to work. Now, the printer won't work. The new Queue I made for it has a red x in it. Actually, let me list my many many issues.

1. I can't print. Duh.

2. The printer queue that I added after what I thought was a succesful install of the HP driver (and which worked) now has a red X.

3. Whenever I reboot, I get a "choose printer driver" menu on startup.

4. WHETHER OR NOT I choose the correct driver, the queue still has a red x.

5. Trying to make a new queu to use, I hit add new and when it comes to the box where you choose a device, the hp is no longer visible, just the /dev/lp0. AFter the succesful install, this was followed by another entry that included my specific printer model. Hitting rescan system does nothing.

6. Even MORE fun...the main reason I tried this fresh install was that I could not seem to cancel printing jobs. They would stop, but stay in the queue and I could not get rid of them. I now have, by accident, a large document that I cancelled part way through...every time I reboot, it prints out a little bit of that document...sometimes just one line! I can't make this print job go away!

7. Printing is important. I hope someone can help.

[veritas]

Okay, I'm an idiot....the red x is about whether it is shared or not. I uninstalled and reinstalled and the cancelled job seems to have disappeared. I am too chicken to try cancelling another print job, as I need my printer right now, but THAT issue was not my own stupidity!