HP Laser Printer Problems

I recently bought an HP CLJ 2025 printer and was disappointed to not find the option where we can choose the type of paper we're printing on. When HP did the demo for me, they used a PC laptop so they had no problem...but when I installed it in my Mac Mini (the installation went smoothly) the option to choose paper type option won't come out when I need to print?
With my HP Deskjet 2400 series, I had no trouble finding that option - what gives?
HELP!!!

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Have you downloaded the HP driver? If you have 10.6 it's located at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us &prodNameId=3673581&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=3673580&swLang=8&taskId=135&sw EnvOID=4082.

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here is the configuration of our Mac where it does not work:
Hardware-Übersicht:
Modellname: iMac
Modell-Identifizierung: iMac9,1
Prozessortyp: Intel Core 2 Duo
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2.93 GHz
Anzahl der Prozessoren: 1
Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 2
L2-Cache: 6 MB
Speicher: 4 GB
Busgeschwindigkeit: 1.07 GHz
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SMC-Version (System): 1.37f3
Seriennummer (System): VM916ER40TL
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BANK 0/DIMM0:
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Hersteller: 0x80AD
Teilenummer: 0x484D54313235533641465238432D47372020
Seriennummer: 0x25900F67
BANK 1/DIMM0:
Größe: 2 GB
Typ: DDR3
Geschwindigkeit: 1067 MHz
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- In the printer.
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Hi,
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THIS WORKS, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP
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ARTWRX wrote:
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389748&tstart=0
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Problems with hp laser printing in leopard- wired and wireless

Printing problems in Leopard are slowly eating away at my last nerve!
Here's the background: I have a Macbook Pro 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, running 10.5.2. Ever since I upgraded to Leopard, I've been having printing problems, both wired and wireless. I have an HP Laserjet 1160, which is a wonderfully reliable printer- I've had it since 2005 and have never had a problem.
When I installed Leopard, I began getting a popup message after starting up my computer and logging in. The message has a lighthouse icon on it and reads:
"Popup Error: Failed to listen for incoming Popup jobs. You will not be able to use Popup printing for the duration of this session. Please report this incident to a system administrator."
(for the record, I only have one computer, it's not on any system, and I have the administrator account)
Here are the two problems I have:
-First, wired printing is spotty. Half of the time, when I connect the USB cable and click print, nothing prints. Usually, if I unplug the cable and plug it into the other USB port, then printing works. This is in spite of the fact that the computer recognizes that the printer is there- I can delete then re-add the printer to my printer list and still nothing.
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Thanks for posting this problem Cathjock. I have had the same issue with a NEC Superscript 1400. Thinking it wast he printer, which is getting up there in age, I went out and purchased a new HP P1505 to no avail. I have been researching this for a few days now and think that all of this is related to a user permission in CUPS. I have de-installed, re-installed, re-booted etc as prescribed and got three pages hours after the fact via my Airport Express connected new printer. Generally, however, nothing comes out immediately as was the case in the past either on Airport Express or via USB cable. I am stumped and am starting to get worried.
I can't print invoices for my business and am considering firing up my old Windows machine if you can believe it !
Seriously, Apple has created a monstrous situation with all of htese printing issues and nothing is apparently being done, nothing that I can find in any of the discussion forums at this time.
My last option is to re-install 10.5 with an archive and install as I really cannot afford to start from scratch.
Now if you look at this forum, there are 242,847 views logged with 2,514 questions and 13,848 messages.
This should mean something for Apple as many people need help and are getting really really ******-off.
So pleeeeaaaaase Apple. respond and offer a fix for this problem that is plaguing a ton of people.
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Printing problems with hp laserjet cp1515n [found problem]

Dear Arch users,
A couple of weeks ago I installed for the first time an Arch linux on my brand new Dell laptop with an UEFI MB. It took a while until I could understand how UEFI works but eventually I sort it out and got Arch installed. Unfortunatelly there are some small problems to be straiten out. One of them is the fact that printing with my laser printer (see subject line) is not working.
for the last couple of days I was searching through all post I could find around on the internet, mainly here at the Arch forum. Unfortunatelly I could not find anything nearly describing what I am living on my system. Well here is a brief description of what is happening. After installing Arch, I opted for KDE desktop environment and I made the full instalation. After installing additional software (gimp, inkskape, etc.) I needed to install my printer. At first I couldn't get permission. Than reading the Arch tutorial for CUPS, I saw that the 'lp' permission was not setup properly. Well Have done as described there. Then I tryed to install using the GUI from KDE for installing an usb printer and for my surprise there was not such an option. I intalled than de hp-toolbox, and than it was easy to install the printer. It was automatically recognized and everything was there. The problem was, when I open an archive (text, web page, doesn't matter) and send it to print, the spooler went well theoretically sent to printer and then popped up a notification saying printing finished. Opening the printing cue, I can see that the archive was still there and marked as pending. That was the point where I started to search around for potential solutions or similar solutions.
After sudying a lot I came to a conclusions that it probably have something to do with permissions. Unfortunately I could not find out where or which permissions to change in order to get something printed. I found some "debugging" and information commands and I am posting the results here;
# systemctl status cups
cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2013-01-29 13:26:21 BRST; 4h 43min ago
Main PID: 525 (cupsd)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/cups.service
└─525 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f
Jan 29 17:39:46 XXXX-archs hp[12186]: io/hpmud/musb.c 588: invalid usb_open: Permission denied
Jan 29 17:40:14 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:43:27 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:44:19 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:44:26 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:44:51 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:45:05 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:56:35 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:56:36 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Jan 29 17:56:36 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
# systemctl status cups.socket
cups.socket - CUPS Printing Service Sockets
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.socket; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2013-01-29 13:26:10 BRST; 4h 45min ago# /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=10
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Hewlett-Packard;CMD:PJL,PML,PCLXL,POSTSCRIPT,PCL;MDL:HP Color LaserJet CP1515n;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet CP1515n;MEM:MEM=55MB;COMMENT:RES=600x8; Device URI: usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1515n?serial=00BRAS85501Y
direct usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1515n?serial=00BRAS85501Y "HP Color LaserJet CP1515n" "HP Color LaserJet CP1515n" "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;CMD:PJL,PML,PCLXL,POSTSCRIPT,PCL;MDL:HP Color LaserJet CP1515n;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet CP1515n;MEM:MEM=55MB;COMMENT:RES=600x8;" ""
Jan 29 13:26:10 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service Sockets.
Jan 29 13:26:10 XXXX-archs systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Printing Service Sockets.
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:4417 Hewlett-Packard EWS UPD
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0c45:648d Microdia
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0cf3:e004 Atheros Communications, Inc.
# /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=10
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Hewlett-Packard;CMD:PJL,PML,PCLXL,POSTSCRIPT,PCL;MDL:HP Color LaserJet CP1515n;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet CP1515n;MEM:MEM=55MB;COMMENT:RES=600x8; Device URI: usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1515n?serial=00BRAS85501Y
direct usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1515n?serial=00BRAS85501Y "HP Color LaserJet CP1515n" "HP Color LaserJet CP1515n" "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;CMD:PJL,PML,PCLXL,POSTSCRIPT,PCL;MDL:HP Color LaserJet CP1515n;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet CP1515n;MEM:MEM=55MB;COMMENT:RES=600x8;" ""
# lpinfo -v
network ipps
network smb
direct hp
network socket
network http
network ipp
file cups-pdf:/
network lpd
network beh
network https
direct ptal
direct hpfax
# usb-devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=4417 Rev=01.00
S: Manufacturer=Hewlett-Packard
S: Product=HP Color LaserJet CP1515n
S: SerialNumber=00BRAS85501Y
C: #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=(none)
I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
The out put from the last command (usb-devices) I only copyed the relevant part from the printer in question.
the couple of last lines of CUPS error.log are;
E [29/Jan/2013:17:44:48 -0200] [Job 14] Stopping unresponsive job.
E [29/Jan/2013:17:52:25 -0200] [Client 14] Request for subdirectory "/admin/log/error_log?".
E [29/Jan/2013:17:52:41 -0200] [Client 14] Request for subdirectory "/admin/log/error_log?".
E [29/Jan/2013:18:05:47 -0200] [cups-deviced] PID 14408 (dnssd) stopped with status 1!
E [29/Jan/2013:18:16:37 -0200] [cups-deviced] PID 15151 (dnssd) stopped with status 1!
I hope somebody could help me out to find where to change permission (if necessary) or point me out to an different road.
Thanks
Last edited by camarao (2013-02-08 02:36:36)

OK here am I again.
as mentioned before I created an bogus printer with:
lpadmin -p test -v file:/dev/null
verified the presence of the printer;
lpstat -p
$ lpstat -p
printer Color_LaserJet_cp1515n disabled since Fri 01 Feb 2013 02:55:59 PM BRST -
reason unknown
printer hp930c is idle. enabled since Thu 31 Jan 2013 11:30:21 PM BRST
printer test is idle. enabled since Fri 01 Feb 2013 02:54:57 PM BRST
At first "test" printer was disabled for an uknown reason.
tried to use lpadmin -p test to enable the printer as described on the previusly mentioned web site, but couldn't get to enable printer "test". After reading alittle more on the internet I found the command cupsenable <printer> and indeed it changed the printer status.
tried to print;
echo test | lp -d test
result:
$ echo test | lp -d test
lp: Destination "test" is not accepting jobs.
I tried to change the condition of the Color laser printer but did not made any difference with the cups command.
Conclusion: how can I modify this status to make the printer accept jobs?

Printing problem with .pdf

27" iMac (2012), OS X 10.9.1, Canon MF4770n laser connected by ethernet cable through AirPort Extreme, HP C4200 connected directly via USB
The Problem: I received a .pdf file via e-mail and downloaded it. It consisted of a series of forms in unknown original format. I needed to print them out, sign them and return them. I opened .pdf in Preview but when I tried to print it, I got only blank pages from the printer. The printer seemed to be operating normally in all other respects.
What I have tried:
1. Successfulloy printed material from other applications using the same computer and Canon printer.
2. Successfully printed a different .pdf file from Preview using the same computer and Canon printer.
3. Successfully printed the offending .pdf from Preview on the same computer and the HP ink jet printer.
4. Successfully printed the offending .pdf from Adobe Reader using the same computer and Canon printer.
Since I was able to print the .pdf using Adobe Reader, this problem is not critical but it is rather mysterious. Any suggestions would be appeciated.

Using ASK.Com - my favorite web browser - does not require you to download anything to use it just enter the url -
I entered the following:
Why is my HP laser printer printing slow
Below is just one of the documents - this one is HP support.
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=mmr_kc-0100314
*just a heads up - whenever you have problems with a printer
1. stop the print queue on your system
2. shut the printer power off for about a minute to clear any printer memory
3. turn on the printer
4. start the print queue
*also - using ASK.com have also found answers on this site without the struggle of going through searching this site.

Printing problem in seagate crystal report 8

Plz help me to solve this problem
The report in preview mode looks very good when I print it the paper appear not as in the preview mode.
EX. the report in crystal 1 paper . in the printed copy 2 or 3 papers and the design is damaged.
the printer type : HP Laser Jet P2015 Series PCL 5e.

Hi,
What tool did you use when preview the Crystal Report? In VB6, .Net or etc., If it is development stage what is your printer settings? Dot Matrix or the Laser Printer, this is one of the cause, Try to print in the other printer let see if we have the same result.
You can this link for update of you CR8[ Click Here,|https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm]
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Major Printing Problem - Can't Print in any App, with Any Printers

I help my Aunt with her three Macs (2 eMacs, 1 MacBook, all running 10.4.8 right now) at her office, and she had me come to help recently because one of the eMacs stopped printing anything; here's what happens:
In every app besides Word (e.g. Safari, TextEdit, AppleWorks, etc.): If I click File>Print... or press 'Command-P,' the cursor turns into the spinning rainbow for a few seconds, and nothing happens (meaning I can do anything I want in the application, as if nothing at all happened).
In Word: If I click File>Print... or press 'Command-P,' Word sits for a minute with the spinning rainbow, then locks up and quits itself. BUT, if I click the little 'print' button in the toolbar (the one that bypasses the print dialog box), the file will print.
I tried resetting the printing system, setting up different printers on the computer, printing over the network and over USB (directly connected to port 1 on the eMac), and re-downloading/installing the printer drivers for the Brother 5250DN laser printer AND the HP LaserJet 1200 laser printer, but all to no avail.
I can run the Printer Setup Utility and recognize the printers (via Bonjour over the network and via USB), and the computer can run the printer setup utilities, so I know the printer communicates fine with the computer. I also can print to the printers (both the networked one and the Brother) from any of the other Macs (including my own laptop) over the network. But I can't get the print dialog box to show up for any printer on the one eMac.
I'm determined that this problem lies within the OSX printing system, but reinstalling the whole OS is not an option, as I would have to re-setup all the software, user accounts, special network settings, etc. (even if I do an Archive and Install). Is there anything I can do??? (I seem to recall someone else having this problem, but I can't find that thread on the forum).

There's another thread describing this same problem. I am having the issue too. As I posted in the other thread:
"Well, I did a full Archive and Install, with restore user settings, and the thing still won't print! All apps crash when trying to print (except Mail.app, which is odd). So it appears all of the files required for printing are there since Mail.app works, but I still can't print from Safari, Firefox, Preview, TextEdit, etc etc. ARGH!!!!
Next step is to downgrade to 10.4.8."
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IMac G5 no longer prints to laser printer over ethernet network

I have a small office with 6 iMacs networked via ethernet with a Netgear Router. Printers are connected to one machine and people send to print over the network.
3 iMacs are G5. 3 are Intel. All run OS X 10.5.8.
A month ago one of the G5 iMacs stopped being able to print to a Brother laser printer (which is connected by USB to an Intel iMac). I believe this happened after we downloaded a periodic Apple update. About 2 weeks ago a second G5 iMac developed the same problem. The 1st G5 iMac still prints fine to an inkjet printer connected directly to it by USB.
We have tried re-loading drivers, but no improvement.
Any suggestions as to how we can resolve this?

Hi DaddyPaycheck
The iMacs that can't print can see the printer. We have deleted and re-installed via the printer system prefs too. There weird thing is that you can select the printer and send to print, but for some reason the printer then automatically pauses and you can't resume it. The file is listed by the status is 'stopped'. When you open the printer queue on the Intel iMac that the laser printer is connected to, no print file shows up at all...
We also ran the network diagnostic that you can do when in printer system prefs and that reported that "the G5 iMac could connect to the internet, but not the Server "brother HL 4040CN series-1@ben's-iMac-2.ipp.tcp.local" "
Hope there's a clue in there somewhere...
R

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