Problems printing with HP laserjet 1018

I'm using the hplip package. CUPS sees the printer, but I can't print diddley. I followed the wiki word for word and have googled extensively but I can't seem to figure it out. I tried printing as root, and as my user, and I am in the lp group but to no avail.
All that happens when I try to print is it says the jobs are all pending. Occasionally I get the error
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip-hplip failed"
I also tried the foo2zjs with similar results. But with the foo2zjs driver it simply says all my jobs are complete, rather than pending.
I've also tried the hp-toolbox program that comes with hplip, it can get the printer to move!, but it still won't print anything.
Thanks for the help.
Last edited by jayjay44 (2009-11-04 18:14:24)

Read wiki, please. It would be helpful http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups
Maybe this is solution
A HPLIP printer sends "/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" error
Make sure dbus is installed and running, e.g. check DAEMONS in /etc/rc.conf or run ls /var/run/daemons.
hp-toolbox sends an error, "Unable to communicate with device"
If running hp-toolbox as a regular user results in:
# hp-toolbox
# error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/<your printer id>
or, "Unable to communicate with device"", then you may have to add yourself to the lp group by running the following command:
# gpasswd -a <username> lp
CUPS returns '"foomatic-rip" not available/stopped with status 3' with a HP printer
If you receive any of the following error messages in /var/log/cups/error_log while using a HP printer, with jobs appearing to be processed while they all end up not being completed with their status set to 'stopped':
Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "<printer_name>" not available: No such file or director
or:
PID 5771 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
make sure you have hplip installed, in addition to the packages mentioned above, net-snmp is also needed. See: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65615
# pacman -S hplip
Last edited by vennen (2009-11-10 22:08:18)

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