Strange printing problem

[Brian]

On 1/24/19 11:34 AM, সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদার wrote:
> Hi Brian
> Peace be upon you.
> 
> বৃহস্পতি, ২৪ জানু, ২০১৯ তারিখে ১০:০৬ PM টায় এ Brian
> <b_lists at patandbrian.org <mailto:b_lists at patandbrian.org>> লিখেছেন:
> 
>     I have two printers accessible to me, one is an H-P OfficeJet which is
>     connected wirelessly to my LAN, the second is an H-P Laserjet which is
>     on a USB connection to my wife's (Debian) PC and then shared. I can
>     use both printers from every application I've tried *except* for one.
>     If I try to print something from within the Lazarus IDE (that's the
>     Pascal development package) then it works just fine with the
>     OfficeJet, but if I try to print to the LaserJet (which is what I want
>     to do most of the time) it just hangs. Looking at the print queue just
>     shows the job as 'Processing', but that never changes, the only way to
>     free up the printer again is to abort the job.
> 
>     I've asked on the Lazarus forums about this, but with no reply, so I
>     thought I'd try here. I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 18 LTS, my wife's PC
>     (due to a BIOS incompatibility) is still running ancient Debian
>     Wheezy, all attempts to upgrade it having failed. It seems really
>     weird that it's just the one application which fails to print and only
>     on one of the two printers.
> 
>     Does anybody have any ideas?
> 
> 
> Hmm. Really strange. Connect your Laserjet with USB to your Ubuntu PC
> and try to print from the Lazarus IDE. And let us know. If that works
> fine then issue is your printer driver with the old debian system and
> cups.
> 

I can try it, but if the issue is with the driver and the old Debian
system as you suggest then I wouldn't expect printing from ANY
application on my PC to work on the Laserjet, and I can print just
fine from gedit, LibreOffice, Okular, etc - every application that
I've tried except Lazarus!


Brian.