[cups.general] HP Deskjet 5440 Half-Working

Paul Scott pslist at ultrasw.com
Sat Apr 15 23:01:19 PDT 2006


David Mattatall wrote:
> On Fri April 14 2006 2:22 pm, Paul Scott wrote:
>   
>> David Mattatall wrote:
>>     
>>> Please CC me directly as I am not on this mailing list.
>>>
>>> I have an HP Deskjet 5440 that I can test fully with the hplip utils
>>> I can check ink and print the alignment and color check pages with the
>>> tool but if I try to print a test page or print any page at all I get the
>>> following in my cups error log or printed directly to my terminal if I am
>>> using hp-toolbox.
>>>
>>> E [05/Apr/2006:19:09:30 -0700] PID 16978 stopped with status 22!
>>>
>>> I get one of those messeges per attempt. However to cups just reports the
>>> print has started and that it had completed successfully (ie it doesn't
>>> get stuck in a queue)
>>>
>>> Does anyone here have any knowledge of this problem?
>>>
>>> I am using the Deskjet-5440 driver that comes with hplip.
>>>       
>> I may have seen this.  Try restarting the printer from the web interface.
>>     
>
> Sadly, this did not work :(
>
> It's a shame that my brand new printer half-works.
>
> maybe I am 'restarting' it wrong. I just clicked stop printer than start 
> printer. Is this what you meant?
>   
As far as I remember that's exactly what I meant.  The only time I have 
needed to do this was when the printer power was accidentally turned off.
You might try kprinter or deleting and re-adding the printer from the 
web interface.

Paul






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