Printing Problem - Cups, Foomatic and HP LaserJet

[JLucien]

I am using a ThinkPad T23 laptop with Debian Sarge installed. In regards to printing, I have so far been able to get network printers to work by using the RAW option in CUPS when setting them up.

However, now we have an network HP Color LaserJet 2600n and I cannot get it to work at all.

I have done some research and there is a foomatic driver available for it from http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/. Thiis driver has been used successfully by my colleagues who use Fedora and Gentoo.

The packages I have installed are foomatic-bin, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-db-gimp-print, foomatic-db-hpijs, foomatic-filters, foomatic-filters-ppds and foomatic-gui.

When I use the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631) to add the printer the driver shows up and I select it. When I print a test page from CUPS it just says "Connected to host, sending print job..." and that's it. The printer is not receiving any information, or at least the lights on it don't flash like it should when it receives a job.

The URI I am using is "socket://ipaddress:9100". Like I say, this is being successfully used on other distros. Any help or pointers appreciated as I am out of ideas.

Cheers,
Jude.

[pajamabama]

I've got that printer working on my SuSE machine using the technique you describe. It's added via the raw IP and foo2hp.

If you say that the driver for the 2600n is showing up in the CUPS configuration, I think that suggests that the driver itself is working properly. Before I installed it, that printer model did not show up at all.

So my guess is that it's probably more of a network problem than a driver issue. I'm not sure what to suggest on how to figure out what's wrong, but that's where I'd look.