[SOLVED] cups and laserjet 1018

Hi all,
I've been trying to use cups to set up a Laserjet 1018 with no success. The problem I'm having is that, even though according to the CUPS web interface my job is completed, my printer doesn't print anything. That's what I tried so far (based on the archlinux entry on CUPS and forums):
- I installed the drivers hplip and foo2zjs.
- cups is in my daemons array.
- I tried to stop and start usblp module.
- the device node permissions are correct.
That's the output of my /var/log/cups/error_log (I'm using "LogLevel debug" in my cupsd.conf):
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:05 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 16 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:05 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:05 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 16 1.1 Get-Jobs 1
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:05 -0600] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost:631/printers/Hewlett-Packard-HP-LaserJet-1018
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:05 -0600] [Job 1] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 2] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 3] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 4] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 5] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 6] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 7] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 8] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 9] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 10] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 11] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 12] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 13] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 14] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 15] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 16] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 17] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 18] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 19] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 20] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 21] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 22] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 23] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 24] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 25] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 26] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 27] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 28] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] [Job 29] Loading attributes...
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Jobs (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Hewlett-Packard-HP-LaserJet-1018) from localhost
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 16 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 16
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] PID 2503 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) exited with no errors.
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:06 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:36 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [25/Jun/2011:21:30:36 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 12
Any suggestions are more than welcome!!
Cheers,
Last edited by falsum (2011-06-26 12:39:10)

owain wrote:I had trouble with another LaserJet (the 1005), until I realised that as well as installing hplip, I needed to run 'hplip -i' (as root) to get it to download the necessary firmware.
For some reason, I don't have a "hplip" command (I searched for this file in every folder).

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