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• Bas Greydanus

  

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  April 28, 2012 2:10:48 AM PDT

  Hello there,

   

  I am quite new to wattos, just installed it and now I ahve the following priting problem.

   

  Wattos has correctly found my HP laserjet 1018, however when I print nothing happens, the printer queue shows status stopped and I see the following message under printerstate:

  idle - /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed

   

  any ideas???

   

  greetings from Holland

  
  This post was edited by Bas Greydanus at April 28, 2012 2:16:13 AM PDT
• Dave .

  

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  April 28, 2012 4:40:25 AM PDT

  hplip?
• Bas Greydanus

  

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  April 28, 2012 5:02:44 AM PDT

  what do you mean with hplip?
• Dave .

  

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  April 28, 2012 5:08:08 AM PDT

  Sorry, what I mean by that was to go to Synaptic and look for "hplip". I hope it'll work.
• Bas Greydanus

  

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  April 28, 2012 9:33:18 AM PDT

  Installed the hplip packages, did not help or change anything :-(
• teejay .

  

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  April 28, 2012 9:24:23 PM PDT

  Suggestion, without guarantees :
  You probably need to have HPLIP available before adding the printer, so you might choose to UNinstall the 1018, reboot, REinstall the 1018. Simple to try, hope it works.
• Bas Greydanus

  

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  April 29, 2012 12:57:12 PM PDT

  @Teejay Tried this, I uninstalled the printer, rebooted, still does not print:-( rocessing - /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed

   

  Anoy other ideas? Frustrating is that it does print with ubuntu 12, but that is too heavy for my system:-(

  
  This post was edited by Bas Greydanus at April 29, 2012 1:05:15 PM PDT
• teejay .

  

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  April 29, 2012 5:47:09 PM PDT

  @Bas How annoying - sounds like there's a U12 solution witing to be backported to U11 and hence wattOS.

  If you've searched online you'll know that this is not an uncommon error, and there are a myriad of fixes to accommodate the myriad of printers.

  Suggest :   http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/  which seems to have something specific for the 1018,

  and failing that the HP website for the 1018 which might have a more specific HPLIP.

  
  This post was edited by teejay . at April 29, 2012 5:48:37 PM PDT
• Bas Greydanus

  

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  April 30, 2012 12:35:19 PM PDT

  @Teejay,
  
  Solved it....
  Deinstalled printer drivers and hplib again, but this time:.
  Reinstalled hplib by downloading from hplip website, this time hplib came with several questions during the script and suddenly the printer started humming.....
• teejay .

  

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  April 30, 2012 3:57:55 PM PDT

  Nothing succeeds like success !
  Glad it worked.
• biff baxter

  

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  April 30, 2012 11:36:54 PM PDT

  Hey Bas - thanks for sharing that you got it working. It will help others in the future I am sure....