HP 870Cxi / Printer not connected

[Hiram]

Evidently this situation still exists in cups 1.19

I set up an HP Office Jet G95 with a Foomatic/hpijs
interface on parallel:/dev/lp0

It printed a test page, and several other simple
tests, but now it appears stuck in the mode of:
I [15/Nov/2004:09:14:25 +0800] [Job 56] Printer not connected; will retry in 30
seconds...

I have reset everything, the printer, the system, cups,
deleted and added the printer, checked /dev/lp0, and turned
on the cups debug log to debug2 and I can not determine
how it is deciding that the printer is not connected.

How does it decide that a printer isn't there ?
Is it one of the lp* commands that uses to
check the printer ?

This has been very frustrating,

Any assistance will be appreciated

<A HREF="mailto:hiram@soe.
ucsc.
edu">
hiram@soe.
ucsc.
edu</A>

--Hiram

Paulo R. Dallan wrote:
> Stefan wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello
> 
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I have an hp840c, very similar to yours, had the same problem as you
> (actually, mine were a little worse), but could solve then! Gonna try to
> help you out of it! :)
> 
> <snip>
>  
> 
>>parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc (0x7bc) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
>>parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 870C
>>parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x3BC
> 
> 
> Ok, it is there, but doesn't mean cups will find it straight ahead! :)
>  
> 
>>I configured the printer via the web-interface and the name of the printer
>>also appears in the device selection - another indication that
>>hardware-wise everything seems to be in order. But if I try to print even
>>only a test page the following error message appears in the webinterface.
> 
> 
> Not necessarily. As strange as it sounds, for my hp to work, I have to see
> *3* *parallel* *ports*, *with* *epson*, *cannon* and *hp*, and then choose
> *hp*. Weird, isn't it?
> 
> 
>>"Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."
>>Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0
> 
> 
> Ha-ha. Had the same problem. Below I described what I did.
>  
> <snip>
> 
>>How can I fix this problem ?
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Ok, I did the following (suggest you do the same):
> 
> First, to be sure the parallel modules are loaded (note they can be already
> compiled into the kernel):
> 
> modprobe lp
> 
> Second, give everyone access to the printer:
> 
> chmod 777 /dev/lp<number>
> (of course, <number> is your device, in my case, 0 (zero));
> 
> Third: restart cups; in my system (Slack 10.0) I do as below; in yours it
> could be different:
> /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart
> 
> Fourth: Go to the browser (localhost:631), delete the current printer (if
> exists) and install a new one. Print test page, and also print from the
> command line some file (lpr-cups <filename.txt> or lp-cups <filename.txt>).
> 
> Tell us if it works, ok? And BTW, do you have X installed (if not, you may
> experience some difficulties).
> 
> Regards!
> 
> Paulo
> 
> 
> 
>