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

[Till Kamppeter]

If you do not need scanning, try the new CUPS 1.1.23rc1 which came out 
today. It has a bug fix on status reporting in the USB backend, perhaps 
then your 'media tray empty' will stop.

    Till

Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Thanks - that got me a little bit further.
> I'm not there yet though :-(
> 
> After compilation and install, I tried to run /etc/init.d/hplip restart
> and got the error
> ---------------------
> Stopping hpiod: /etc/init.d/hplip: line 35: =: command not found
> /etc/init.d/hplip: line 37: $pidfile: ambiguous redirect
> kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
> kill -l[sigspec]
> rm: too few arguments
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
>                                            [FAILED]
> Stopping hpssd: /etc/init.d/hplip: line 35: =: command not found
> /etc/init.d/hplip: line 37: $pidfile: ambiguous redirect
> kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
> kill -l[sigspec]
> rm: too few arguments
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
>                                            [FAILED]
> Starting hpiod:                                            [FAILED]
> Starting hpssd:                                            [FAILED]
> ---------------------
> 
> If I run /etc/init.d/hplip start, I get just the last two hpiod and
> hpssd failed error lines.
> 
> I also tried installing the gentoo hppoj ebuild.  I can print to the
> device with the generic deskjet printer driver (poor quality printing),
> but have no luck with the correct PSC-750xi printer driver.  The fault
> is slightly different to before though.  
> 
> With the USB driver, the printer would report an empty media tray, while
> now the localhost:631 interface reports everything OK, but when I try to
> print a test page, I get a 'job aborted' error.
>  
> Jeff