Can't Print Using lp

I added an HP Deskjet 3420 using the CUPS web configruation. I can only print a test page (which probably means the driver at least is working).
However, using
lp Untitled\ 1.odt
yields no results. It simply addes the job but does not print the one character in the file.
I tried using hp-print; however, it stops with this error:
Print command failed with status code 1. lpr -P deskjet_3420 -o page-set=all "/home/robin/text.txt"
Note: hp-print doesn't allow me to print ODT files so I just used a plaintext file for testing purposes.
Last edited by brotatos (2012-02-26 22:46:19)

brotatos wrote:ewaller: Going into libreoffice and printing the file did nothing.
Let's just leave aside odt files for the moment. The title of the thread says you have trouble printing with lp, and you said you did test it with a plain text file. Once we have lp working on plain text files, you may need to consider whether lp is the best choice for printing odts.
brotatos wrote:
/dev/zero:
hp_deskjet_3420 accepting requests since Sun 26 Feb 2012 03:31:55 PM PST
Try changing
brotatos wrote:lpr -P deskjet_3420 -o page-set=all "/home/robin/text.txt"
to
lp -d hp_deskjet_3420 /home/robin/text.txt

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