On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:29:17 pm Graham wrote: > I had an HP PSC 1610 set up with Gutsy, and it printed Ok. This > morning I came to print something on it - and it didn't > start to print. > I noticed that the printer was no longer in the list of printers set > up, so I decided to set it up again. The print wizard came up but the > line allowing you to select a local printer was blanked out. > > I rebooted and then changed the printer to my old HP Photosmart 7660, > but exactly the same thing - I couldn't install the printer because the > top line was again blanked out. > > Can anybody help me? First off is the printer connected? has usb cable come undone?, is the printerturned on? For example on my server 1 printer is now turned on so if I run lsusb ( as root) this is what I get: root@box:~# lsusb Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 1 Device 4: ID 03f0:1204 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 930c Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Now when I turn on the psc2355: root@box:~# lsusb Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 1 Device 5: ID 03f0:4911 Hewlett-Packard Bus 1 Device 4: ID 03f0:1204 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 930c Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Next check out the CUPS server, if your system is recognising the printer cups should find it too. That is if the CUPS server is running. I can check that out on my server like this: root@box:~# ps -A | grep cups 2351 ? 00:00:00 cupsd This means the CUPS daemon/service/whatever you want to call it is running. AFAIK, KDE's Kprinter won't do anything unless CUPS is running and printer(s) are plugged in/installed/configured. I.E. this may not be a KDE problem. Sorry, I can't help you any more than that as I don't know anything specific about how Gutsy (I assume ubuntu) handles such things. -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. http://www.turtlespond.net Written on: Pungenday, the 66th of The Aftermath, 3173 Want my weather? http://www.turtlespond.net/Mornington-weather.cgi ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.