Printer takes ages to print one page with FC8

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 00:37:11 AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> M. Fioretti wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently got this used HP Deskjet 895Cxi printer, connected it to PC
>> running FC8 and it's worked fine until yesterday. This morning it
>> started to behave strangely.
> ...
>
> There are a few possibilities. I list these in order of likelihood...

Thanks to all who answered.  I must absolutely leave for an errand
now, but when I'll be back I'll re-read all the answers more
thoroughly and investigate better, using your suggestions.  However:

1) I had already written that there are no flashing leds, noises or
   anything from the printer, that the cable is USB and is OK, that I
   was trying to print a text only OpenDocument file and that even
   other print attempts (I tried "ls | lpr") wouldn't print anything.

2) In the meantime, here's something new. Since power up this morning,
   the printer looks "not ready". Again, no lights, noises,
   nothing. Nothing revealing (AFAICT) in the cups log (where I
   enabled debug). Below are its last messages and the lpq output.

Any further pointer/suggestion is welcome. Maybe the first thing now
is how to make sure, without carrying the printer to somebody else's
home to plug it into another computer, that the printer is still
working and that this is a software-only problem.

Marco

[root at polaris ~]# tail -40 /var/log/cups/error_log
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/DESKJET_895C
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/printers/DESKJET_895C
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:08:42 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 9
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: skipping getpeercon()
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: clients=1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: jobs=139
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: jobs-active=0
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: printers=1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: stringpool-string-count=586
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=9144
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=9792
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] CUPS-Get-Default
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/DESKJET_895C
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/printers/DESKJET_895C
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [04/Sep/2008:09:15:42 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 9
[root at polaris ~]# lpq
DESKJET_895C is not ready
no entries
[root at polaris ~]#


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