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Wayne A. Smith | 4 Feb 2012 22:38

HP DeskJet F380 Failure

If a brief perusal of the below indicates that I should further review
what may be available documentation which I have been unable to 
locate, please simply advise - and I will then stop bothering the 
readers and try to find my answer.  So far I have been unable to 
locate anything that would seem to solve the problem.

Initially, Cups recognized the subject, and eCS 2.0 also has a driver 
for the F300 Series.  So this part doesn't seem to be a problem.

I _think_ I have 1.4.8 installed properly.  Due to an "invalid package
index '99'" error on the WPI file, I installed all the zip files 
manually over a previous eCUPS003.wpi installation.  However I believe
I might read somewhere that it might be wise to first use WarpIn to 
uninstall earlier installations, something I didn't do here.  If this 
could be a step I shouldn't have avodied, please advise.

Trying to print a test page, after having added the printer, fails, 
and yields a message of
     "Paused - "Unable to write 320 bytes to printer!""
(Earlier messages indicated 
     "Unable to write 512 bytes to printer!"
and
     "No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!".

Depite my inability to print a test page, I went ahead and created a 
printer object.  Dropping a PS file on it resulted in the same 
failure.  On it, similar to the test page efforts, the Access Log 
indicated
     localhost - - [04/Feb/2012:14:10:20 +0500] "POST 
/printers/HP_Deskjet_F300_series HTTP/1.1" 200 614355 Print-Job

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Paul Smedley | 4 Feb 2012 23:34

Re: HP DeskJet F380 Failure

Hi Wayne,

On 05/02/12 08:08, Wayne A. Smith wrote:
> If a brief perusal of the below indicates that I should further review
> what may be available documentation which I have been unable to
> locate, please simply advise - and I will then stop bothering the
> readers and try to find my answer.  So far I have been unable to
> locate anything that would seem to solve the problem.
>
> Initially, Cups recognized the subject, and eCS 2.0 also has a driver
> for the F300 Series.  So this part doesn't seem to be a problem.
>
> Trying to print a test page, after having added the printer, fails,
> and yields a message of
>       "Paused - "Unable to write 320 bytes to printer!""
> (Earlier messages indicated
>       "Unable to write 512 bytes to printer!"
> and
>       "No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!".
>
This suggests CUPS is having trouble sending the job to the printer.

Assuming the printer is USB connected, there are some fixes for USB 
printers in CUPS 1.5.1 - so I'll try compile at least the USB backend 
from 1.5.1 and make it available.

> Depite my inability to print a test page, I went ahead and created a
> printer object.  Dropping a PS file on it resulted in the same
> failure.  On it, similar to the test page efforts, the Access Log
> indicated

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