hp 6mp with cups, on suse 12.1 "printout disabled" always

Hi,

Please run command "hp-check -t" in terminal and provide its terminal output here.

Optionally you can try to download latest hplip-3.12.2 from http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/gethplip.html. Download the hplip-3.12.2.run file and install it by running command "sh hplip-3.12.2.run"

After the installation is finished go to hplip-3.12.2 folder

cd hplip-3.12.2

run in terminal ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-pp-build ( => this is to enable parallel port setup of the printer)

run make (=> to compile the code)
run sudo make install (=> to install the hplip package)

Run command "hp-setup" in terminal to configure/setup your printer.

Regards,
Goutam

FYI:

Regarding printer access via parallel port, see
"Parallel port printers" at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_a_Printer
and
"Parallel port printers do no longer work out of the box" at
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Printing

Forget my comment.
You wrote "Upon reboot, printer will do test page"
which proves that the printer is accessible via the parallel port
and that it basically works to send data to it.

linux-pkvp Downloads/hplip-3.12.2# hp-check -t

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.10)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.3

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball
(.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc)
or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases
(both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Saving output in log file: hp-check.log

Initializing. Please wait...

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

Basic system information:
Linux linux-pkvp 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 27 08:55:10 UTC 2012 (efb5ff4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
suse 12.1

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.7.2 installed

Checking PyQt 4.x version...
OK, version 4.8.5 installed.

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
Version: 1.5.0
error_log is set to level: warn

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.83.2

------------------------------------
| COMPILE AND RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
------------------------------------

note: To check for compile-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -c parameter (ie, hp-check -c).
note: To check for run-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -r parameter (ie, hp-check -r).

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: CUPS image - CUPS image development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libjpeg - JPEG library...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libpthread - POSIX threads library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libtool - Library building support services...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libusb - USB library...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.

Checking for dependency: PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python devel - Python development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.

----------------------
| HPLIP INSTALLATION |
----------------------

Currently installed HPLIP version...
HPLIP 3.11.10 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.11.10

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip
ppdbase=/usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs
doc=/usr/share/doc/packages/hplip
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/lib/cups/driver

# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=yes
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=yes
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=no
cups-ppd-install=yes
internal-tag=3.11.10
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=no
hpijs-only-build=no
lite-build=no
udev-acl-rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
# hplip.state - HPLIP runtime persistent variables.

[plugin]
installed=0
eula=0

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
error: Could not access file: No such file or directory

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

No devices found.

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

HP_LaserJet_6MP
---------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/par/HP_LaserJet_6MP?device=/dev/parport0
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP_LaserJet_6MP.ppd
PPD Description: HP LaserJet 6P/6MP - PostScript
Printer /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed disabled since Thu Mar 1 10:01:11 2012 -
error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/par/HP_LaserJet_6MP?device=/dev/parport0
error: Device not found
error: Communication status: Failed

----------------------
| SANE CONFIGURATION |
----------------------

'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
error: Not found. SANE backend 'hpaio' NOT properly setup (needs to be added to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf).

Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

---------------------
| PYTHON EXTENSIONS |
---------------------

Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
OK, found.

---------------
| USER GROUPS |
---------------

root

-----------
| SUMMARY |
-----------

error: 15 errors and/or warnings.

Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html

Done.
linux-pkvp Downloads/hplip-3.12.2#

In replhy to:
   Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) said on 2012-03-02: #3

   Forget my comment.
   You wrote "Upon reboot, printer will do test page"
   which proves that the printer is accessible via the parallel port
   and that it basically works to send data to it.

Yesterday, before my first email, I checked with lsmod and found
   parport 46528 3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev

However, despite your disclaimer, I read your reference and did another lsmod:
  no lp module was present.
Hmm. Something must have killed it, most likely during my efforts to set up printer.
However, after
   modprobe lp
with the relevant modules now loaded, I used YaST (not hplip) with result that printer is found but "printing disabled"
and there was no way to enable it. So I deleted the printer.
Next, using hplip I tried to set up the printer, but "no hp devices found."

Methinks there is more than one problem here.

Oops, I see I'm running 3.11.10 which was distributed with 12.1. But when I try to compile 3.12.2,
linux-pkvp Downloads/hplip-3.12.2# locate libjpeg
/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62
/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0/jre/lib/amd64/libjpeg.so
/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62
/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.8
/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.8.0.2

the make for hplip doesn't like the SuSE version of libjpeg.

I'm going to have to work on getting 3.12.2 compiled before bothering you guys more.

jim

Bludgeoned compilation of hplip 3.12.2 to enable parallel printer.
Now hplip setup says "no devices found".
Yast, on the other hand, sees the printer but can't print a test page.
Now back to hp-check -t, which looks pretty clean:

linux-pkvp Downloads/hplip-3.12.2# !159
hp-check -t

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.3

Copyright (c) 2011-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball
(.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc)
or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases
(both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Saving output in log file: hp-check.log

Initializing. Please wait...

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

Basic system information:
Linux linux-pkvp 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 27 08:55:10 UTC 2012 (efb5ff4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
suse 12.1

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.7.2 installed

Checking PyQt 4.x version...
OK, version 4.8.5 installed.

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
Version: 1.5.0
error_log is set to level: warn

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.83.2

------------------------------------
| COMPILE AND RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
------------------------------------

note: To check for compile-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -c parameter (ie, hp-check -c).
note: To check for run-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -r parameter (ie, hp-check -r).

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS image - CUPS image development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libjpeg - JPEG library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libpthread - POSIX threads library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libtool - Library building support services...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libusb - USB library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python devel - Python development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...
OK, found.

----------------------
| HPLIP INSTALLATION |
----------------------

Currently installed HPLIP version...
HPLIP 3.12.2 currently installed in '/usr/local/share/hplip'.

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.12.2

[dirs]
home=/usr/local/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/local/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/local/share/ppd
doc=/usr/local/share/doc/hplip-3.12.2
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/local/share/cups/drv/hp

# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=no
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.12.2
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=no
hpijs-only-build=no
lite-build=no
udev-acl-rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
# hplip.state - HPLIP runtime persistent variables.

[plugin]
installed=0
eula=0

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
error: Could not access file: No such file or directory

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

No devices found.

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

parallelprinter
---------------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/parallelprinter.ppd
PPD Description: HP LaserJet 6mp pcl3, hpcups 3.11.10
Printer Rendering completedallelprinter is idle. enabled since Sat Mar 3 19:18:28 2012
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP.

----------------------
| SANE CONFIGURATION |
----------------------

'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up.

Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

---------------------
| PYTHON EXTENSIONS |
---------------------

Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
OK, found.

---------------
| USER GROUPS |
---------------

root

-----------
| SUMMARY |
-----------

error: 1 error or warning.

Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html

Done.

FYI,
regarding comment #5 where you wrote:

"YaST ... printer is found but "printing disabled
 and there was no way to enable it. So I deleted the printer."

You can re-enable it in the YaST printer"Modify"dialog,
for general information see
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Printer

For general information regarding "printing disabled" see
"What is a CUPS backend and how does it work?" at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell

But when you debug such kind of printing issues,
I even recommend to delete the whole print queue
and re-create it from scratch for each new test
to be safe that not whatever issue which is related
to the old print queue setup is left.

But when the root cause is a lower-level issue
(e.g. a lower level issue regarding communication
via the parallel port) then it usually would not help
to only re-create the print queue from scratch.
Instead the root cause must be fixed at the lower level.

In your case first and foremost make sure that the test via
  echo -en "\rHello\r\f" >/dev/lp0
as described in
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_a_Printer
works.

Thanks for the suggestions.
When I said, There was no way to enable..." I should have said that checking the "enable printer" button in Yast had no effect.

I have read the docs that you suggest. echo -en "\rHello\r\f" >/dev/lp0 produces no output and no error messages.
485 % lpq
parallelprinter is ready
no entries

I now have two printers configured via Yast: the usb printer works fine; the parallel not at all. Here's the description of each from Yast:
Local parallelprinter HP LaserJet 6MP with driver HP LaserJet 6MP hpijs pcl3,3.11.10 Yes Ready
Local Stylus-Photo-780 linux-pkvp Ready

Crucially, there is no "location" for the parallelprinter.

Having gotten this far, hplip can't find any printers: setup says no devices found (for parallel ports)

hp-check now yields:
parallelprinter
---------------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/parallelprinter.ppd
PPD Description: HP LaserJet 6mp hpijs pcl3, 3.11.10
Printer Rendering completedallelprinter is idle. enabled since Thu Mar 8 14:59:37 2012
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP.

Stylus-Photo-780
----------------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20780
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/Stylus-Photo-780.ppd
PPD Description: Epson Stylus Photo 780 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7 Simplified
Printer Rendering completedlus-Photo-780 is idle. enabled since Thu Mar 8 12:50:04 2012
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP.

Strangely, the hplip button on the toolbar identifies the parallel printer as "HP LaserJet 6MP (/dev/parport0)
parport0 and lp0 are different devices -- one is not a link to the other. Should it be?

Mirabile dictu! Reboot, no other changes, and parallel printer seems to work. At least it does test page, lpr, and printing from browser.

Oddly, the hplip icon is missing from the kde toolbar. And hp-check still returns warnings about printers not installed using hplip. I can live with that.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have no idea why it functions now. But you can bet that I'll save the setup params.

I was able to get hp-setup to work by doing this: "LC_ALL=C hp-setup". Now the scanner works. The log message that shows the problem is "Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1" in /var/log/cups/error.log.

It seems the "Unsupported character set iso-8859-1 in /var/log/cups/error.log"
is still the very old bug that HPLIP does not work in compliance with IPP/CUPS
regarding the character set that is used in HPLIP's IPP communication, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196
in particular
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196/comments/19
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196/comments/20
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196/comments/21
and
https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/35351