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IP Printing and HP LaserJet 4250

I'm having difficulties to print to HP LaserJet 4250 via LPD protocol. Each and every time I try to print, the print queue stops saying "Jobs stopped".

If I tail CUPS error log I see this:
I [25/Oct/2006:15:00:29 +0300] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftops (PID 5646) for job 2.
I [25/Oct/2006:15:00:29 +0300] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 5647) for job 2.
I [25/Oct/2006:15:00:29 +0300] Started filter /Library/Printers/hp/filter/hppostprocessing (PID 5648) for job 2.
I [25/Oct/2006:15:00:29 +0300] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/lpd (PID 5649) for job 2.
E [25/Oct/2006:15:00:30 +0300] PID 5649 stopped with status 1!
I [25/Oct/2006:15:00:30 +0300] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.

I have deleted the printer and set it up again on Printer Setup Utility and downloaded new drivers from HP web site. It just doesn't work. Printing to old HP 2100 with LPD works fine so looks like Mac OS X does not like HP 4250 printer. Setting LogLevel to "debug" on CUPS does not offer any clues. What gives?

Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) HP LaserJet 4250

Posted on Oct 25, 2006 5:17 AM

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tomis Author

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Nov 7, 2006 12:44 AM in response to greg sahli

Well, I managed to set ip up and print page correctly. But does it save my Windows network username and password somewhere - it asked for it when I set up the printer.

I'm just wondering if this method could be used with Active Directory? If user logs in and if authenticated by AD and Mac supports single-sign on, then it should not ask for password when printing. I have to test this.

On the other hand, I have to test print quotas as well, since we are using Pcounter from AND Technologies and IP Printing is the only way Pcounter supports Mac and Linux workstations. But, this seems to be a workaroung worth of exploring.

tomis Author

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Nov 7, 2006 3:17 AM in response to tomis

Didn' work out in the lab. Says "Priting" but nothing happens. Trying to set up printer via Open Directory gives the familiar "NTSTATUS_ACCESSDENIED" error.

greg sahli

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Nov 7, 2006 5:10 AM in response to tomis

Sorry, tomis,
I've run out of ideas. I don't have a big lab like that and I don't do page accounting. I'm hoping that someone else will come in to help.

tomis Author

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Nov 8, 2006 12:20 AM in response to greg sahli

Thanks for trying anyway.

I'll try to grab a functional HP LaserJet 2100 as a workaround.

That Pcounter software is not that reliable, we've have had a lot of problems with it. There's no way to seed how many pages you can print, I mean how many print points you have left. On Windows that's available on the System Tray. Mac and Linux users have to log onto special web page.

A lot of negative things have said in the public about Apple Discussions, so it's nice to see there're still some good folks in here.

Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Windows Server 2003

Dec 20, 2006 5:15 AM in response to greg sahli

Thank you for this timely information. Windows Printing worked perfectly to connect a MacBook to a HPLaserJet 4050 connected to a PC with Windows XP.

IP Printing and HP LaserJet 4250