I have an hp officejet k80xi printer, which is not supported by the Mac
directly, but is supported by OpenPrinting.org.
I installed ghostscript, and hpijs, but when I print, I get nothing,
with the phrase "sending data".
As a test, I moved the printer back to the Windows box, where it has lived
for the past 3 years, and sent the print job across to windows via samba.
That worked fine.
So the hpijs driver works.
Its fine if I send the job over the ethernet cable to another box running the same printer.
But the page gets lost going across the usb cable and into the printer.
When the printer is on windows, it also connects via usb,
so printer on usb works.
When the printer is attached to the mac, the Mac sees it,
and identifies model and serial number.
So Mac plus usb works.
Still, the page doesn't make it over to the printer across usb.
I could leave the windows box running as a print server,
and will probably do so for a while, until I can buy a supported printer,
but I can't figure out what is wrong with the direct usb connection.
I went to /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb and ran it
directly, with -v and -V, but it wasn't kind enough to give me
its version number, so I don't even know what version I have.
It came with Tiger 10.4.8.
Are there known bugs in backend/usb?
Any reason it won't work with hp jet k80?
I'd hate to buy another printer and have it not work over usb,
if the problem lies in the backend usb program itself.
I've worked on this one for a while, and don't have a clue.
Many thanks.
directly, but is supported by OpenPrinting.org.
I installed ghostscript, and hpijs, but when I print, I get nothing,
with the phrase "sending data".
As a test, I moved the printer back to the Windows box, where it has lived
for the past 3 years, and sent the print job across to windows via samba.
That worked fine.
So the hpijs driver works.
Its fine if I send the job over the ethernet cable to another box running the same printer.
But the page gets lost going across the usb cable and into the printer.
When the printer is on windows, it also connects via usb,
so printer on usb works.
When the printer is attached to the mac, the Mac sees it,
and identifies model and serial number.
So Mac plus usb works.
Still, the page doesn't make it over to the printer across usb.
I could leave the windows box running as a print server,
and will probably do so for a while, until I can buy a supported printer,
but I can't figure out what is wrong with the direct usb connection.
I went to /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb and ran it
directly, with -v and -V, but it wasn't kind enough to give me
its version number, so I don't even know what version I have.
It came with Tiger 10.4.8.
Are there known bugs in backend/usb?
Any reason it won't work with hp jet k80?
I'd hate to buy another printer and have it not work over usb,
if the problem lies in the backend usb program itself.
I've worked on this one for a while, and don't have a clue.
Many thanks.
