Printer issue in Slackware

[battletoad]

We have a hp p2055d printer connected to a pc running slackware 13.1. Problem is, sometimes its fine, most of the time its problematic, spitting out garbage. Is there any place where i could perhaps download a driver for the printer? The driver for the p2050 is installed at the moment.

Has anyone else come across a problem as such which was not due to a driver? I'm not really familiar with linux, but i'll give it a go if i can source a troubleshooting manual (for the printer obviously, there's nothing wrong with linux!)

 

[ponder]

Are you using the hplip driver?
If not try it as it's a universal driver for most HP printers.

Should be in the repositories of your distribution.

Why is the pc running slackware as it not exactly the easiest linux distro?

 

[MickZA]

Here's a working CUPS entry on Ubuntu:

Description: HP2055
Location: factory-linux
Printer Driver: Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 Simplified
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: usb://HP/LaserJet%20P2055d

 

[MyWorld]

Can you do the following for me please:
lsmod | grep usb

Paste the output here. What we are looking for is usblp, it is installed with cups but cause a lot of problems for various printers. If it is loaded then you can do a test by unloading it first and then printing a test page:
rmmod usblp

If it works now flawlessly you will have to blacklist that module so that it does not load in future. To blacklist it add it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

 

[battletoad]

thanks. apologies for the late reply, ive been away from the office this last couple of days. will paste the output on monday morning.

thanks again
ps we've been using the universal hp driver