On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:34 +0000, "Tim Waugh" <twaugh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 10:44 -0400, Barry wrote:
> I followed Manuel's suggestion, uninstalled the HPLIP that I had, and
> reinstalled the hplip rpms. And I end up in the same situation. I can
> print very simple files, local text files, pdfs and a simple web page on
> the host machine. I cannot print a web page of any complexity from
> Firefox. I plugged the printer into the host machine, installed the
> printer, and it prints fine from the host. I was able to install the
> printer on the guest, and print a test page, but cannot print from
> Firefox. Otherwise networking is fine on the guest.
Is it an HP LaserJet 3050? Is that a PostScript-capable printer?
HPLIP provides two drivers for that model: a PostScript driver and a
PCL3 driver. The gutenprint-cups package also provides another
(raster-based) driver.
Have you tried those other drivers?
There's some information on the wiki about debugging printing problems
that might be useful otherwise:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging
Tim.
Yes, the Laserjet, and I've always used the postscript drivers, several
machines, different platforms. But I just tried the PCL3 driver and it
too is weird. I printed a test page with it that came out with all the
graphics. I was able to print one web page, but not another -- however,
this time I got an error that said it was an empty file.
Barry
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