[olug] All of a sudden -- Printing Errors on HP Deskjet 842c (Take 2)

[Don E. Kauffman]

Yep Check the freaking cable! Just replaced my cable and my parallel
printer (lp0) works now. the problem was that the printer showed up and
installed just fine but nothing would print. So I got a new cable and
voila! it prints. 

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:01 -0800, Eric Lusk wrote:
> One of the first things I check if nothing else has
> changed is to try another cable for the printer.
> I've seen computers worked on for days because of a
> bad cable to the printer.
> 
> --- Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes using CUPS.
> > 
> > lpstat -a
> > 
> > comes back with 
> > HP-Deskjet-842 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> > 
> > 
> > Still doesn't print yet...
> > 
> > 
> > --- Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 15 January 2006 22:53, Joe Gulizia
> > wrote:
> > > > Running Ubuntu 5.10 and I have a HP Deskjet 842c
> > > > printer that worked last week.  Today I got the
> > > > following errors whe trying to print from Open
> > > Office
> > > > 2.0
> > > >
> > > > "Printing Error"
> > > >
> > > > When I go to Print "Test Page", I get "Error
> > Code:
> > > 1033"
> > > 
> > > Hi Joe!  Aren't printers wonderful?  Are you using
> > > CUPS? If so, what does 
> > > "lpstat -a" tell you? 
> > > >
> > > > Google search was cryptic at best
> > > >
> > > > Thank you
> > > >
> > > >
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