[cups.general] HP PSC-750 "Media tray empty!" Error

[Till Kamppeter]

Use

../configure --enable-rpm-install

with HPLIP 0.8.4, this should suppress the chkconfig call but do all the 
rest.

    Till


Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Thanks Till,
> 
> I tried to install the hplip source (v 0.84), and got the error
> 
> ---------------
> /bin/sh: line 1: /chkconfig: No such file or directory
> make: *** [install] Error 127
> ---------------
> 
> I am using gentoo, and there doesn't seem to be an ebuild for hplip.
> version 0.82 terminated with the same error.
> 
> I'm guessing that I'm probably missing some dependancies.  The question
> is, which one(s) :-/
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>>This printer does not need the "usb" backend of CUPS, and so you can
>>surround the bug easily. Either use the HPOJ of your distro, or
> 
> better,
> 
>>use the new HPLIP from
>>
>>http://hpinkjet.sf.net/
>>
>>They bring their own CUPS backends. And in addition you will then be
>>able to scan with SANE and with HPLIP you can also do printer
>>maintenance tasks (as nozzle cleaning, head alignment, ...).
>>
>>    Till
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Jeff Cranmer wrote:
>>
>>>I am trying to use the my PSC-750 printer/scanner/copier with the HP
> 
> PSC
> 
>>>750xi Foomatic/hpijs printer driver.
>>>
>>>When I try to send a test page, I get a 'media tray empty' error,
> 
> though
> 
>>>there is plenty of paper in the tray.
>>>
>>>I have successfully configured a HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 driver
> 
> to
> 
>>>work with this printer, but the quality is not what it was with the
> 
> HP
> 
>>>PSC 750xi Foomatic/hpijs driver on my old (now removed) Mandrake 9.2
>>>install.
>>>
>>>The driver is the same one which worked with Mandrake, and I'm
> 
> running a
> 
>>>Gentoo 2.4.27 kernel (though the same error appears on my gentoo 2.6
>>>kernel).
>>>
>>>In previous searches, I have seen a few other similar posts claiming
>>>that it is a bug in the latest version of cups and how it interfaces
>>>with usb, but haven't found any work-around solutions described.
>>>
>>>Has anyone experienced the same problems and found a permanent
> 
> solution?
> 
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>
>>>
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