[Novalug] Charlie's printing problem

[cmhowe at patriot.net]

> FWIW...
>
> This afternoon Charlie and I tried to get his HP printer to work on my
> Ubuntu box. It didn't work.
>
> The system did see the printer, recognized
> that the driver was missing, located the driver and I could download it
> without problems (I wrote down only hplip-3.9.8-plugin.run...). The
> printer appeared in the GUI: nothing seemed awry. But, it didn't print.
>
> I tried printing a sample with my own printer. This didn't work either,
> but the system told me, properly as it turned out, that the printer
> cable wasn't connected. After fixing this the printer worked again.
>
> So, I don't think it's my system, it's Charlie's printer. To be honest,
> I didn't think of checking whether the printer had a cartridge: I just
> assumed that Charlie must have checked that already, but maybe that was
> a bad assumption.
>
It comes with a cartridge that is supposed to be able to print about 700
pages.

Jay Hart, are you willing for me to visit you and you try to get it working?

Charlie

> I'm certain Charlie will appreciate input from someone more knowledgeable
> than me.
>
> Nino
>