This laserjet printer would not print anything. It’s connected through the network and I could get to the webpage for it, but it would not print.
Solution:
Hold down both arrow keys and power off and on. Keep holding the keys down until get to Language -> English prompt. Then, just go through and re-setup the printer. After that, things printed ok again.
/usr/sbin/cupsenable < printer >
The status of a printer can be checked with:
[computer1 ~]# lpq -P 3rdfl
3rdfl is ready
no entries
If the result comes back with:
3rdfl is not ready
The printer needs to be started. This can be done by opening a web browser on the computer and going to localhost:631. However, it’s easier to just enable it from the command line with:
/usr/bin/enable
Be sure to include the /usr/bin part or it will think it’s a shell built-in command and it won’t work.
By default, we have banner pages off, but if someone wants to print a banner page, do this:
lpr -o job-sheets=standard file_to_print
Here’s a screenshot of the relevant cups manual.
Phaser 8560 (2nd Floor color, 3rd Floor color, edg4) and 8560MFP (eshop edg2, by Gaby)
Phaser 8550 (old 3rd Floor color printer–new location TBD)
HP Laserjet 5200 (EDG, b/w printers 2nd and 3rd floor)
HP DesignJet 800PS (HEP Plotter)
HP Color LaserJet 2605DN (Aspasia’s Office)
For default text printing, the file /etc/cups/lpoptions contains all the info for each printer. To change the default font size (for plain text files), change the cpi (characters per inch) and lpi (lines per inch) options.
By default, they look to be set as cpi=12 and lpi=7. To make the default font bigger, make these values smaller. I usually use cpi=10 and lpi=6.
Added postscript plotter to hep with:
lpadmin -p plotter -E -v socket://hepplot:9100 -P /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz
Our hp800 ps printer is a postscript plotter that is very slow when printing a postscript file. On windows, print speeds increase dramatically if one prints to the HP-GL2 printer queue and not the postscript queue. Unforrtunately, Mac OS X does not have an HP-GL2 driver. The only driver is available is the postscript driver. Which means that printing from a Mac takes forever. Easiest solution is to take the file to the windows machine and print it there. I’ll have to watch for any new drivers from HP for this printer.