[plug] USB Printer Not Working

[WolfBite]

or is it one of those printers thats SUPPOSE to work
with linux but is more trouble than what its worth i.e
samsung ml-1710

wolfbite

--- Tim White <weirdo at tigris.org> wrote:

> I have a Lexmark X73 multifunction center. It is
> detected as a USB hub
> with 2 devices (Scanner and Printer) and the printer
> is asigned to
> /dev/usb/lp0 (as far as I can see)
> The messages I get when it is plugged in are:
> ---
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
> hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-1:1.0: 2 ports detected
> usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using address 3
> usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using address 4
> drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional
> printer dev 4 if 0
> alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x0014
> ---
> And `usbview` shows it as a printer.
> I have set it up using cups and the foomatic driver,
> "Lexmark X73 drv_z42"
> When I print to it nothing happens and if I go to
> complete jobs under
> http://localhost:631 it shows the jobs as aborted.
> ---
> X73-14       Test Page       root       218k       
> aborted
> ---
> The status is "idle and accepting jobs" even when
> the printer is
> disconnected (physically)
> I'm don't know whats gone wrong. I've only ever used
> network and
> parallel port printers under linux so I may have
> missed something.
> Tim
> 
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