I have an HP5510 that is hooked up to a Windows XP computer. I have
installed Gentoo on a laptop.
I followed the instructions on Linuxprinting.org and the Gentoo web site
to create the printer so that the Gentoo laptop can print. This is all
done with Cups, HPIJS and HPOJ. I created the printer using CUPS web
admin and everything looks right and it is using the proper PPD file.

I also created a local account on the XP machine that cups uses for
printing.

When I try to print, the print job shows up in the XP queue with the
right account name and the printer will sound like it is getting ready
to print (cartridge moves, rollers roll, light flashing). Problem is
that is all it is doing. It will stay like that forever (or long enough
it might as well be) with no error messages or anything. The XP queue
says it is printing. I have even played with setting it to print right
away and setting to RAW (FF Append) as has been suggested on Google.

I tried it using TCP/IP printing as well as SMB but with no luck as well.

The laptop will dual boot into XP and printing is fine there. I suspect
I missed something.

I have also verified that everything is up to date with an Emerge sync,
world

Any suggestions?
Thanks
Chris

Chris Tremblay wrote:

> When I try to print, the print job shows up in the XP queue with the
> right account name and the printer will sound like it is getting
> ready to print (cartridge moves, rollers roll, light flashing).
> Problem is that is all it is doing. It will stay like that forever
> (or long enough it might as well be) with no error messages or
> anything. The XP queue says it is printing. I have even played with
> setting it to print right away and setting to RAW (FF Append) as has
> been suggested on Google.

It would be interesting to steal the file from the XP spool and look
into it with a hex editor, to see if there isn't just some garbage
and if it looks like some HP printer language. I guess you should see
there quantities of the ESC character (I think it was ordinal number
27 dec or 16 hex). It might be displayed as a small left arrow. And
it would probably be followed by a left square bracket + some data of
variable length. That's what the ESC sequances look like in a hex
editor, if I remember well.

Eventually try to make something like copy /b <thefile> lpt1: or how
it is, like in the ol' good DOS. Don't remember what the exact syntax
would be. It might require putting the file on a floppy and booting
DOS. Perhaps XP might prevent you from bypassing its printing
subsystem.

Jarda wrote:
> Chris Tremblay wrote:
>
>
>>When I try to print, the print job shows up in the XP queue with the
>>right account name and the printer will sound like it is getting
>>ready to print (cartridge moves, rollers roll, light flashing).
>>Problem is that is all it is doing. It will stay like that forever
>>(or long enough it might as well be) with no error messages or
>>anything. The XP queue says it is printing. I have even played with
>>setting it to print right away and setting to RAW (FF Append) as has
>>been suggested on Google.
>
>
> It would be interesting to steal the file from the XP spool and look
> into it with a hex editor, to see if there isn't just some garbage
> and if it looks like some HP printer language. I guess you should see
> there quantities of the ESC character (I think it was ordinal number
> 27 dec or 16 hex). It might be displayed as a small left arrow. And
> it would probably be followed by a left square bracket + some data of
> variable length. That's what the ESC sequances look like in a hex
> editor, if I remember well.
>
> Eventually try to make something like copy /b <thefile> lpt1: or how
> it is, like in the ol' good DOS. Don't remember what the exact syntax
> would be. It might require putting the file on a floppy and booting
> DOS. Perhaps XP might prevent you from bypassing its printing
> subsystem.
Thanks for the reply. I may give it a shot to see how it goes when I
have a chance.