Parallel Printing

[mooreted]

Running Fedora 16 on an old Pentium 4 and it runs great. My only problem is parallel printing support.

My printer is an HP Laserjet 4050. When I run the Printers applet from System Settings, it doesn't see any printers even though mine is plugged into LPT1. I went into the CUPS administration page and set my printer up and I can print a test page. When I go to Google Docs or Calendar and try to print, the print job completes, but nothing actually prints.

This printer works great in Windows, Linux Mint, Ubuntu and PC-BSD.

Is there some way to get my Laserjet 4050 to print properly in Fedora 16?

[mooreted]

Ok, here's what I'm going to try:

1. Install a PDF reader since Google creates a PDF to print
2. Install Parport and HPLIP
3. Check startup modules to see if I need to add LPT printing support

[DBelton]

HP Laserjet 4050 runs fine here on F16 attached to the parallel port.

I did have to install HPLIP, but after that, all I did was add the printer into cups and it works great.

Did you set the 4050 to be the default printer? If not, your print jobs may be trying to go to another printer.

[mooreted]

I think so, but I'll check it when I get to work tomorrow. I don't know if it's a Google docs issue, a Chrome issue, a web issue. I'll figure it out eventually.

Thanks for the help.

[mooreted]

Set the printer to default in CUPS, changed various trays, made sure multiplexing is off. It will print a test page from CUPS but nothing else. Not even from Gedit. The print job completes, the printer shows "Processing Job" then nothing happens.

---------- Post added at 01:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:51 PM ----------

Here are the errors I'm going to take a look at:

'E [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] Unknown directive JobPrivateAccess on line 87.',
'E [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] Unknown directive JobPrivateValues on line 88.',
'E [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] Unknown directive SubscriptionPrivateAccess on line 89.',
'E [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] Unknown directive SubscriptionPrivateValues on line 90.',
"W [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] failed to CreateProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExistsrofile id 'HPLJ-4050-Gray..' already exists",
"W [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-HPLJ-4050' already exists",
'E [01/May/2012:13:46:07 -0700] Unable to bind socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address already in use.'],

---------- Post added at 02:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:53 PM ----------

Changed the driver to:

HP LaserJet 4050 Series hpijs pcl3, 3.12.2