Debian/Ubuntu and HP LaserJet 1320 problem

[Madison Kelly]

Jason Shein wrote:
> On Thursday 11 May 2006 17:35, Madison Kelly wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   At work I have Debian 3.1 Stable and another guy here has Ubuntu Dapper
>> Drake Beta and we both have the same problem. The office has an HP
>> LaserJet 1320 printer with one of those small parallel port to network
>> adapters. We can both print fine in the end, *but*, we both have a
>> problem that when we send a job to the printer, it starts blinking the
>> orange light. Once we walk over and press the green (main) button it
>> prints fine. If we sent two or more jobs at a time we'll have to press
>> the button before each job.
>>
>>   Needless to say, this is a touch annoying.
>>
>>   The oddest part is that until recently the other guy had an older
>> Mandrake (9.1?) and it didn't do this. When he printed the job would
>> start right away. So I know that it isn't a problem with Linux per-se.
>> That said though, google didn't yield any clues (that I could find). So
>> any help would be much appreciated!
>>
>> grr, printers!
>>
>> Madison
> 
> 
>>From linuxprinting.org:
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1320
> 
> Under the user notes section I found this:
> 
> --snip--
> 
> - Using HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd I get a blinky yellow warning light when I 
> turn on duplex printing in the cups admin GUI.  To reset, open and close the
> front panel.  With duplex off, seems okay.  How do you get duplex working?
> - (update) turning on draft and it prints duplex.  I think the copier paper 
> I'm
> using is the issue.
> 
> I have setup cups to have both a duplex and a non-duplex printer. But the 
> duplex printer is not printing duplex, even if I use   lpr -P Duplex  fil.ps
> 
> -I can confirm that duplex only works in draft mode. (regardless of the paper)
> 
> --snip--
> 
> And are you using the new  HPLIP drivers from http://hpinkjet.sf.net/ or are 
> you running the older drivers? You have the choice between using the new and 
> old drivers on Ubuntu.
> 

The shell script on that page did he trick, thank you!!

Madison
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