Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (29 mails)

[Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas <fantanas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After upgrading to SuSE 10.2 from 10.0 (both 64 bit), I have not been
able to get my printer to print from firefox (32 bit) or thunderbird (64
bit).  It was working perfectly under SuSE 10.0.  The printer is an
HP8450 inkjet, which uses the same drivers as the HP8400 inkjet
(strangely enough, linuxprinting.org lists this printer as a laser
printer; maybe there is an HP8450 laser, but mine is inkjet).

The printer prints the test page from inside YAST perfectly well.  And
it also prints the test page from inside the CUPS administration tool
(http://127.0.0.1:631) without any problem, even the fine radial lines 1
degree apart.  It also works fine from inside openoffice.  But when I
try to print from inside firefox or Thunderbird, it seems it wants to
print the Postscript instructions rather than executing them.

The printer is connected through ethernet.  YAST says that the PPD file
is "HP8400 Photosmart Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)", and the connection
is direct TCP port printer at socket://192.168.xxx.xxx:9100 (nmap also
shows ports 80 and 139 open and I know port 80 is open because I can
talk to that printer at that port through the browser).  In YAST, I have
marked "Share Printer" and "Do Local Filtering."

Since the release notes of SuSE 10.2 mention drastic changes in CUPS, I
used YAST to erase it and reinstall it.  But the result is still the
same: it prints Postscript instructions (and I rush to to turn it off to
save paper).  Since the printer prints fine from inside YAST, CUPS
administrator, and OpenOffice, I must be doing something wrong.  Any ideas?

TIA for your time.

-- 
Running 64-bit Linux on AMD64


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