USB/CUPS printer help solicited for the HP P2055dn...

[Jeffrey Racine]

Hi.

I realize this might not be the most appropriate forum, but am hoping
that perhaps someone has experience with this issue and can suggest an
avenue that might prove fruitful.

I am running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE and the latest gnome installed. I use
CUPS for handling printers and have successfully used CUPS with a color
laserjet (HP1600) for some time now but needed to add a b/w duplex
printer so recently bought the HP P2055dn. Both have usb connections,
but the 2055 is not cooperating. I am using the PPD from HP
(hp-laserjet_p2055dn-ps.ppd) and have tried a variety of things but to
no avail.

My latest attempt was to use ulpt0 and have only one printer connected.
The color laserjet works fine if I connect it and use the 1600 driver,
but if I connect the 2055 I get a `printer busy' command when I submit a
job (same dev so not a permission issue).

HPP2055dn (Default Printer) "Printer busy; will retry in 10 seconds..."

Description: HPP2055dn
Location: 
Printer Driver: HP LaserJet P2015
Series Postscript (recommended)
Printer State: processing, accepting
jobs, published. 
Device URI: usb:/dev/ulpt0


There are no relevant warnings/errors that I can see in /var/log/cups

So, I was hoping that perhaps some kind soul is using this (or similar
printer such as the P2015).

Many thanks for your kind assistance.

-- Jeff


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