laserjet 1018 on fedora 4: no output???

[Olivier Ramare]

Dear all,

  Trying to install a second printer on my fedora system.
The previous one is a parallel printer. The new one is
an hp laserjet 1018 on usb port 1.
  I ran printconf as root, tried lots of things on
 http://localhost:631 ----
  What is and what is not:
  -- two printers are recognized, the second one being
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laserjet_1018  HP LaserJet 1018 Foomatic/foo2zjs (recommended)
   Description: HP LaserJet 1018
   Location: USB Printer #1
   Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
   Device URI: usb://HP/LaserJet%201018
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and lpstat -t gives consistent results:
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scheduler is running
system default destination: Imprimante
device for deskjet_842c: parallel:/dev/lp0
device for laserjet_1018: usb://HP/LaserJet%201018
deskjet_842c accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
laserjet_1018 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
printer deskjet_842c is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer Imprimante is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer laserjet_1018 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
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  -- I am a bit worried about this usb://HP/LaserJet%201018
     which is also the answer of /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
     /dev/usb/lp0 belongs to root and group lp
  -- Problems: from http://localhost:631/printers, if I ask
     for a Test Page, nothing comes out, but the job is declared
     completed. No queues --
  -- "lp -Plaserjet_1018 Oups.txt" complains  that
      lp: unable to print file: client-error-bad-request
     but that may be a distinct problem. /var/log/cups/error_log
     has "print_job: bad page-ranges values 0-0."
  -- "lpr -Plaserjet_1018 Oups.txt" does not complain. And
     /var/log/cups/error_log has
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 Adding start banner page "none" to job 58.
I [...] Adding end banner page "none" to job 58.
I [...] Job 58 queued on 'laserjet_1018' by 'olivier'.
I [...] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 2659) for job 58.
I [...] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2660) for job 58.
I [...] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 2661) for job 58.
I [...] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 2662) for job 58.

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    but no output ...
  -- I started kdvi with a dvi file and tried to print a file, with
     same output (except that texttops was not invoked of course).

  I'm a bit in a fix :-p and any help would be ... helpful :-)
  Cheers,
  Amities,
           Olivier