printer hp officejet pro k8600

[Rem P Roberti]

> 
> > These are the four files that I have installed:
> > 
> > foomatic-db-20070124_2 Foomatic database
> > foomatic-db-engine-20070124,1 Foomatic database engine
> > foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers
> > foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts
> >
> thank rem!
> following your instructions and learning that i had a corrupt ppd file,
> i downloaded a new one from linuxprinting.org
> 
> now the rip problem is gone and everything appears as though it should
> work just fine.
> 
> unfortunately, cups sees the printer as 'busy' and keeps retrying the
> test page. i can ping the printer and print to it from both linux and xp
> machines, but it is showing up as busy even though i shut it off and
> restarted.
> 
> i can't seem to print from the console either using lp - the job shows
> up as processing or pending but nothing prints.

Do you have devfs.rules in your /etc directory that has this contained
within:

[system=10]
add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups
add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups
add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups

There is a whole permissions thing that has to be correct or cups won't
play.

--Rem