[CentOS] CentOS5:Printer Won't Work

Robert Thompson
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:45:36 -0000

I have a HP OfficeJet K80xi "all-in-one" USB printer. When I send a
file to the printer from a virtual console using the command : lp
"anyfilename", the response is "request ID is HPOJK80-7 (1
file(s)".
There is no printer action, no sound, nothing. The printers name is
HPOJK80; the -7 is the job number.
The command lpstat shows there are a total of 7 jobs in the queue. The
command lpq response is "HPOJK80 is ready and printing", and lists the
7
file names. Nothing has ever printed since I switched to CentOS5.
 The hplip web site (http://hplip.sourceforge.net/) tells me to do "rpm
-qa hplip" from a virtual console. The result is
"hplip-1.6.7-4.1.e15"
(driver model installed). The web site table shows any driver later than
0.9.5 should work. The hplip web site also states that there are 6
"dependencies": xsane, cups-devel, libjpeg-devel, pyqt, pyqt-devel,
and
net-snmp-devel. Using the find command (find / -name 'filename' -print)
results in 2 hits for xane, 0 hits for the others except libjpeg-devel
which gives the message "/proc/11268: No such file or directory". My
conclusion is there are 5 missing files, probably cups-devel is the most
important. Where can I find the missing files? How do I know where to
put them?
While I am not sure that "system-config-printer" was run correctly, I
am
going to concentrate on the missing dependencies. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks in advance. Bob T.