Printer only prints testpage

[Helge Blischke]

mac doggie wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Clarkconnect 3.0 R3 on my old Pentium III so I could use it as a web/printer server. Clasrconnect comes with cups, and so I'm trying to get my printer to work.
> 
> I installed the printer (HP photosmart 7550 [USB]) in cups and printed a testpage. That worked allright. After that I connected to my printserver that runs clarkconnect/cups via My win XP machine. Because Sama is installed under Clarkconnect, I get to connect and see my shares and also my printer. When I install a new networkprinter on my Win XP pc and type in the name of my printer Confetti\HP_photosmart_7550 it finds my printer and all looks fine. I then try to print a testpage, but I only see the job on my Win XP machine. It doesn't appear in CUPS and it doesn't start printing. The jobs status is "placing in queue" after a while it disappears like it is allready done printing, but the printer never starts. The queue also didn't have any amount of pages in it.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what could be the problem here ?
> 
> I also tried installing a local printer on my Win XP pc and added a new TCP/IP port with the IP address of my server 192.168.XXX.XXX but then the job doesn't get to CUPS either. It get's the status Failed.
> 
> Help me please, I don't know what to do next.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> -mac-

Follow the instructions in chapters 19 and/or 20 in the "official SAMBA
howto" to install 
CUPS managed printers on XP.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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