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/usr/bin/lp does not work with HP OJPro 7600

Asked by William D. Tallman

HP OfficeJet Pro 7600 on an ethernet LAN installed with cups-1.2.11 and hplip-1.7.4a on Slackware 12.0. Installed printer with the CUPS localhost:631 pages, using hp-makeuri. Printer is set as default. So far, everything works as it should, except for Gimp-2.2 and other apps that use /usr/bin/lp. What am I missing here? If this is the wrong forum, where should I ask?

Thanks,

William D. Tallman

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dwelch91 (dwelch91) said : 		#1

do you get an error message or just no output?

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:46 PM, William D. Tallman <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #32267 on HPLIP:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/32267
>
> HP OfficeJet Pro 7600 on an ethernet LAN installed with cups-1.2.11 and
> hplip-1.7.4a on Slackware 12.0. Installed printer with the CUPS
> localhost:631 pages, using hp-makeuri. Printer is set as default. So far,
> everything works as it should, except for Gimp-2.2 and other apps that use
> /usr/bin/lp. What am I missing here? If this is the wrong forum, where
> should I ask?
>
> Thanks,
>
> William D. Tallman
>
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a member of HP
> Linux Imaging and Printing, which is an answer contact for HPLIP.
>

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William D. Tallman (wtallman) said : 		#2

Both.

Gimp uses the command 'lp -s -dHP_Printer -oraw' (HP_Printer is the printer name). Other apps just use 'lp'. It seemed to me that the lack of space between the switches and arguments (-oraw, for instance) was not an issue before with the Gimp printing. It fails with no error message, probably because of the '-s'. But other apps that just use 'lp' fail silently as well.

On the command line, however:

/* ~/echotest is the test file. */

 [wtallman@ansible ~]$ lp echotest
/usr/bin/lp: line 1: This: command not found
[wtallman@ansible ~]$ lp -d HP_Printer echotest
/usr/bin/lp: line 1: This: command not found
[wtallman@ansible ~]$ cat echotest > /usr/bin/lp
bash: /usr/bin/lp: Permission denied
[wtallman@ansible ~]$ su
Password:
[root@ansible /home/wtallman]# cat echotest > /usr/bin/lp
[root@ansible /home/wtallman]# /* fails silently */

What else?

Thanks,

William D. Tallman

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Best dwelch91 (dwelch91) said : 		#3

Well, I am very suspicious of "/usr/bin/lp: line 1: This: command not found"

Could you do:

$ less /usr/bin/lp

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:48 PM, William D. Tallman <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Question #32267 on HPLIP changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/32267
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> William D. Tallman is still having a problem:
> Both.
>
> Gimp uses the command 'lp -s -dHP_Printer -oraw' (HP_Printer is the
> printer name). Other apps just use 'lp'. It seemed to me that the lack
> of space between the switches and arguments (-oraw, for instance) was
> not an issue before with the Gimp printing. It fails with no error
> message, probably because of the '-s'. But other apps that just use
> 'lp' fail silently as well.
>
> On the command line, however:
>
> /* ~/echotest is the test file. */
>
> [wtallman@ansible ~]$ lp echotest
> /usr/bin/lp: line 1: This: command not found
> [wtallman@ansible ~]$ lp -d HP_Printer echotest
> /usr/bin/lp: line 1: This: command not found
> [wtallman@ansible ~]$ cat echotest > /usr/bin/lp
> bash: /usr/bin/lp: Permission denied
> [wtallman@ansible ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root@ansible /home/wtallman]# cat echotest > /usr/bin/lp
> [root@ansible /home/wtallman]# /* fails silently */
>
> What else?
>
> Thanks,
>
> William D. Tallman
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a member of HP
> Linux Imaging and Printing, which is an answer contact for HPLIP.
>

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William D. Tallman (wtallman) said : 		#4

Ouch!!!

Dunno what I was thinking with that stupid command 'cat echotest > /usr/bin/lp'. I overwrote the executable! I can't even think when I did that first; damnedest senior moment I've had in a long time! Out came the installation CDs; find the cups tgz file; untar it; fine the executables; remove the ASCIIized files; copy over the real ones; run 'lp echotest'. Watch and listen as the printer fires up and prints the file!

Wipe egg from face.

Thanks,

William D. Tallman

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William D. Tallman (wtallman) said : 		#5

Thanks dwelch91, that solved my question.