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styllag

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Registered: 2021-12-16

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Printing problem with HP LaserJet P2055d

Hello everybody

First of all, sorry for my English. I recently installed Arch on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 5570) and I encountered a problem with printing.

I have an HP LaserJet P2055d connected to a mac computer that i want to connect to from my laptop. I have installed cups, hplip and avahi and I tried to follow the instructions of the wiki page about CUPS.
With

lpinfo -v

I get the uri of the printer:

network dnssd://HP%20LaserJet%20P2055d%20%40%20Amac._ipp._tcp.local/cups?uuid=3adeef9c-8a7f-3e59-78f0-b8f1eeade322

.
To find available drivers, I tried:

lpinfo -m | grep p2055d

and the result is

drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_p2055d-pcl3.ppd HP LaserJet p2055d pcl3, hpcups 3.21.12
lsb/usr/HP/hp-laserjet_p2055d-pcl3.ppd.gz HP LaserJet p2055d pcl3, hpcups 3.21.12
drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_p2055dn-pcl3.ppd HP LaserJet p2055dn pcl3, hpcups 3.21.12
lsb/usr/HP/hp-laserjet_p2055dn-pcl3.ppd.gz HP LaserJet p2055dn pcl3, hpcups 3.21.12

I then tried to add a new queue for this printer according to the instructions of wiki. So I tried :

lpadmin -p LaserJet -E -v dnssd://HP%20LaserJet%20P2055d%20%40%20Amac._ipp._tcp.local/cups?uuid=3adeef9c-8a7f-3e59-78f0-b8f1eeade322 -m drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_p2055d-pcl3.ppd

Now this is interesting. I get no error messages in my terminal but two errors are reported in the file "/var/log/cups/error_log" :

CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

Because the LaserJet P2055d is not a color pinter I continued the process setting the printer as default, activating it and setting it to accept jobs:

lpoptions -d LaserJet
cupsenable LaserJet
cupsaccept LaserJet

Finally I tried to print the test page as

lpr /usr/share/cups/data/testprint

After typing this command printer seems to start processing the job because the "Ready" light starts blinking and the menu screen of the printer displays "Printing document". However this continues for ever and no page is actually ever printed. When typing :

lpq

I get:

LaserJet is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  stylian 10      testprint                       1024 bytes

I am very confused!!!!

Edit: After typing

lprm

printer printed a blank page with a little black rhombus in the upper left corner.

Last edited by styllag (2021-12-23 07:54:29)

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: [SOLVED] Printing problem with HP LaserJet P2055d

Did you see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS#Network_2 - and specifically did you do this...
Warning: Avoid configuring both the server and the client with a printer filter—either the print queue on the client or the server should be 'raw'

styllag

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Registered: 2021-12-16

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Printing problem with HP LaserJet P2055d

Oh you are right!!! I missed that. This solved the problem. Thank you!!!!!!