In my attempt to set up Gimp so I could print from Gimp, I have messed up my printer and made things worse. Now nothing will print. Printing worked just fine until I tried to improve it.

I'm using SuSE 10 on Linux, Gimp 2.2.10. HP Deskjet printer 5550

I downloaded gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2 from sourceforge.

In Yast, I now have 3 PPD files showing for my Deskjet5550.

They are HPDeskJet5550 Foomatic/hpijs
(recommended)(manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/HP-Deskjet_5550-hpijs.ppd.gz)

2nd one is HP Deskjet 5550 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) (HP-Deskjet_5550-hpijs.ppd)

3rd is HP Deskjet 5550 Foomatic/gimp-print (recommended) (HJP/Deskjet_5550-gimp-print.ppd.gz)

None will print. Print commands are going to the print queue.

When I use command line I get:

helen@marigold:~/Documents> lp test.txt request id is deskjet5550-27 (1 file(s)) helen@marigold:~/Documents>

I've disconnected my printer and rebooted with no printer attached, then reinstalled my deskjet and rebooted. Still nothing will print.

I can see that cups is running. I don't know where to go from here.

Can anyone help?

Helen

On 9/7/06, Russbucket wrote:

On Thursday 07 September 2006 19:57, Helen wrote:

In my attempt to set up Gimp so I could print from Gimp, I have messed up my printer and made things worse. Now nothing will print. Printing worked just fine until I tried to improve it.

I'm using SuSE 10 on Linux, Gimp 2.2.10. HP Deskjet printer 5550

I downloaded gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2 from sourceforge.

In Yast, I now have 3 PPD files showing for my Deskjet5550.

They are HPDeskJet5550 Foomatic/hpijs
(recommended)(manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/HP-Deskjet_5550-hpijs.ppd.gz)

2nd one is HP Deskjet 5550 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) (HP-Deskjet_5550-hpijs.ppd)

3rd is HP Deskjet 5550 Foomatic/gimp-print (recommended) (HJP/Deskjet_5550-gimp-print.ppd.gz)

None will print. Print commands are going to the print queue.

When I use command line I get:

helen@marigold:~/Documents> lp test.txt request id is deskjet5550-27 (1 file(s)) helen@marigold:~/Documents>

I've disconnected my printer and rebooted with no printer attached, then reinstalled my deskjet and rebooted. Still nothing will print.

I can see that cups is running. I don't know where to go from here.

Can anyone help?

Helen

After you downloaded the gutenprint tar file did you tar it and then compile
it? If you did you follow the steps in the INSTALL or README files about rebuilding the PPD files for CUPS.

Then you probably need to log on to the CUPS Page with your browser(http://localhost:631/admin) and create the printer. You will need to
be the cups admin. You can use the lppasswd command to setup a admin ID if your root.

Hope this gives you some ideas. --
Russ

Thanks. I looked, and it's clearly over my head. I don't even know how to get in, so I probably should not be there. Why is gutenprint so difficult? Is it the version of gimp that Im using ( 2.2.10) ? I think it might be easier to update to a later version of gimp, than to figure out what has gone wrong here. I relly need to print, but since installing gutenprint, I cannot print anything, even from the hpdeskjet ppd. I would appreciate any ideas as to how I should proceed. I don't know how to get into cups admin mode, and it might not be a safe thing to do anyway,
Helen