Topic: Printing on a HP Deskjet 5150?

[matski_98]

Hello,

I've got SME 6.0 running fine over a Windows network and I've added a HP Deskjet 5150 via USB to the SME box and added it to the printer list on the admin panel.

All the computers on the network can see the printer and adding it to their list of printers seems to work fine. However when you send anything to print it goes though the motions on the Windows machines and dissapears from the print queue but nothing happens on the printer.

Any clues about where I'm going wrong?

Thanks!

[skiguy09]

What you are doing wrong is using a GDI printer. The
printer you are using offloads major processing (also called the RIP process) to the host processor. For $99 new what do you expect??

SME server only passes the print job to the printer. It does not perform any processing for the printer that it requires. I had this same problem with my Sharp AL-1010 digital copier/printer.

You may have more luck with a external printer server.


PS: everyone, my clam antivirus still isnt working right. Now that I helped this person, can someone help me?

[Anonymous]

matski, are you using the patched e-smith-LPRng? What's the output of rpm -q e-smith-LPRng?

[Anonymous]

matski, are you using the patched e-smith-LPRng?

Don't think so, I'm using the 6.0 version.

What's the output of rpm -q e-smith-LPRng?

Sorry I'm a bit of a Linux noob! Where would I find that info?

Thanks for your help guys

[Anonymous]

Updates for SME 6.0 are found on the e-smith mirrors. You can get a list of these mirrors by following the "Downloads" link on the contribs.org homepage. Here's an example of how to download and install the updates:




1. Go to a login prompt by typing Alt-F2.




2. Log in as "root" with the admin password.




3. Get the updates by typing all on one line "wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=3 ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/6.0/RPMS" (without the quotes).




4. Type "cd e-smith/updates/6.0/RPMS" (without quotes).




5. Upgrade with the rpm command. Type "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --replacepkgs --nodeps i386/* noarch/*" all on one line without quotes. This invokes the Red Hat Package Manager (rpm) to upgrade (-U switch) verbosely (-v) printing hashes for progress (-h) all packages in the i386 and noarch subdirectories. You need the --oldpackage flag for the dovecot package, --nodeps for the SMEServer package and --replacepkgs for all packages that don't strictly need updating. Typing "man rpm" (press "q" to quit the manual) shows more usage instructions.




6. Type "/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade" (on one line, no quotes).




7. Type "/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot" (on one line, no quotes) to reboot.





P.S. "rpm -q packagename" shows what version of packagename you have installed.





HTH

[raem]

Dear HTH
Your post about updating is too valuable to get lost in a thread about printing problems.
I have used the information in your post to create a
Update install procedure HOWTO for sme server

See
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/Update%20instal%20procedure%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm

Thanks