Printer is HP ENVY5000. 5+ years old, always recognized and usable under all distros, here f41 and f42. Under f43 it seems impossible to use. I didn’t modify any settings, it simply fails. It is reachable, I can reach its web server, search for it and (KDE System Settings) find it, installs a correct driver, but it always fails at printing.
After setup, it says “HP ENVY 5000 series [AB00CC]” and “idle”. Queue name is (automatically set) HP ENVY 5000 series [AB00CC]. Printing the test page starts, and at a certain percentage of “completed” it fails, at any of my different settings (as well as the initial, unchanged, settings taken over from f42) with “Unable to locate printer “HPB00CD1AB00CC.local”
I have restarted the PC, the printer, whatever. it is always this “unable to locate printer”. It’s kind of crazy, because using the dedicated .ppd, it even shows the reserve of the ink reservoirs correctly. But at actually sending a print job, it stays at “unable to locate printer” after some percent of completion.
And, to make things even more strange, the “Document Scanner” of f43 works splendidly with this multifunction device.
From all this, I can only assume some problem with cups, or the name resolution. I tried the alternatives of IPP everywhere, driverless, .ppd. All end with the same “printer not found”.
[Edit: added screenshots:
- Me doing nothing, just “Add Printer” (autodetected)
- Me doing nothing, proposes everything correctly
- “OK” leads to “not found”
Since I didn’t enter anything myself, it is a logical flaw, when a printer is found, configured, automatically, and subsequently never found]
