Printing Problems

**reizrd** · 01-29-2007, 03:15 AM

I have some trouble getting my COMPAQ IJ300 which is connected to LPT1 to work. I installed the driver with the KDE interface and via http://localhost:631/admin. I had to manually run CUPSD from a root shell. The print jobs show up in the jobs list with error status, nut nothing gets sent to the printer. I am running Live CD.
Does anybody have a hint on how to fix this. BTW the printer operates fine under Windows XP.

**reizrd** · 02-01-2007, 02:54 AM

I have investigated this a bit further and I had my printer working on a PCLOS Live CD. There I had to enable the "infinite retry" in case of an error. Is there such a feature in Knoppix 5.1.1?

**ndb** · 02-01-2007, 11:46 AM

reizrd, you didn't mention explicitly which version of knoppix you're using. You did ask about an infinite retry feature in 5.1.1. Is this the version you're running?

5.1.0 did have a problem with adding a printer. It was unable to add a temporary printer. 5.1.1 fixed this problem.

5.0 used ESP printer drivers instead of the large list of drivers. The two subsequent versions dropped the ESP drivers.

**reizrd** · 02-01-2007, 05:41 PM

5.1.1 is in fact the version I am running. The printer seems to get added correctly, but print jobs get stuck in the print queue. They show up in the job list with error status. I got around this problem in another distro by enabling its retry feature.

**ndb** · 02-01-2007, 09:28 PM

I just got home and saw the latest. I did a web search on knoppix and IJ300 and saw a list of printer compatibilities on linuxforum.com.

http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-printing/printers.html

This is probably a useful link for anyone considering buying a printer, or moving to linux.

It's listed as a paperweight. I also found a message on http://www.linuxquestions.org, where someone says that it's a rebranded lexmark, for what that's worth.