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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 310

Printing that just works?

Hello,

Every time I want to print something, I need to do the following steps (which I figured out after reading all of the wiki etc):

1. as root, do systemctl restart org.cups.cupsd.service
2. as non-root, do hp-systray
3. sometimes, in hp-systray UI, do "start printer"
4. try to print and hope it works. sometimes it doesn't. TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE DAYS IT DOESN'T. archlinux updates change things?

I don't want a different adventure after every pacman -Syu. I would instead like it to be the following steps:

1. print from any application and select the printer
2. it works (even after many pacman -Syu's and so on)

Is there a good way to get such reliable stable printing? How can I configure it properly? Thanks!

Last edited by aardwolf (2017-06-12 19:34:30)

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Printing that just works?

Have you enabled the org.cups.cupsd.service so that it automatically starts at boot?

In my experience HP printers are bulletproof with Linux, I've never had an issue with any of mine.

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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 310

Re: Printing that just works?

Is the org.cups.cupsd.service enough?

Somehow the printer would only appear in UI print dialogs after also starting hp-systray. Is there a way to not need hp-systray?

Last edited by aardwolf (2017-06-12 19:35:35)

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: Printing that just works?

I have a brother printer that just works with cups... it's old those likely no longer available.  Best advice is to consult google to see which works and buy that one.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Printing that just works?

Avoid hplip and use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foo2zjs-nightly/ if you can (and suffer from the binary plugin requirement)

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pypi

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Registered: 2014-04-22

Posts: 250

Re: Printing that just works?

I'm curious - which printer do you have? Have you enabled org.cups.cupsd.service? If you are trying to print from gtk3 applications, do you have gtk3-print-backends installed? Do you use the binary plugin?