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cdysthe

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Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 62

Can't add my HP printer.

Hi,

First I opened the Printer Configuration utility in System Settings in KDE. I can't do anything there. All the check boxes are grayed out for the server settings. I then thought cups wasn't running, but it is. I did sudo /etc/rc.d/cups start, but cups was already running. I also opened HPLIP and tried to add the printer there. It gets detected, but when I click Add Printer I get an error pop-up saying: Printer queue setup failed.
Please restart CUPS and try again. I get the same in the terminal when I run sudo hp-setup. I know the printer works since I can print from other Linux machines without problem using HPLIP.

I'm on Arch 32

What could the problem be?

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: Can't add my HP printer.

The printer is a usb one? If yes you blacklisted usblp?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Can't add my HP printer.

Try adding it in CUPS web interface (http://localhost:613).

Try adding yourself to the lp group.

Peruse http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups.

owain

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 251

Re: Can't add my HP printer.

Try (despite it being blacklisted) sudo modprobe usblp, wait a while, sudo modprobe -r usblp.  It's still the only way mine works, since the last CUPS upgrade...