Zebra TLP 2844 on Linux - not printing anything at all

Try append the printer queue with the option P -

lpr -P<printer name> /tmp/print.txt

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Can you confirm if the printer in a working state?

First of all thank you.
Now i have two printers so to verify i need to check what i have ?

$ lsusb | grep Zebra
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a5f:000a Zebra

$ dmesg
[ 1379.873035] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[ 1379.893823] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5f, idProduct=000a
[ 1379.893832] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=4, SerialNumber=6
[ 1379.893835] usb 3-4: Product: TLP2844
[ 1379.893839] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: Zebra ;
[ 1379.893841] usb 3-4: SerialNumber: 41A064602138
[ 1379.946854] usblp 3-4:1.0: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x0A5F pid 0x000A
[ 1379.946904] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[ 1487.937037] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 1490.939944] usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 1490.956546] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1111, idProduct=2222
[ 1490.956554] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 1490.963040] input: HID 1111:2222 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/input/input15
[ 1490.963250] hid-generic 0003:1111:2222.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [HID 1111:2222] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input3
[ 1621.549866] usblp1: removed
[ 1622.631936] usblp 3-4:1.0: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x0A5F pid 0x000A


$ lpstat -p -d
printer LabelWriter-450 is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:47:06 AM CET
printer PDF is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:40:12 AM CET
printer Zebra_TLP2844 is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 05:52:37 AM CET
system default destination: LabelWriter-450

$ lpstat -p -d
printer LabelWriter-450 is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:47:06 AM CET
printer PDF is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:40:12 AM CET
printer Zebra_TLP2844 is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 05:52:37 AM CET
system default destination: LabelWriter-450
$ echo 'test' > /tmp/print.txt
$ lpr -PZebra_TLP2844 /tmp/print.txt 

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Also tried with some GUI such as Gedit to print or Gimp but that also failed.



Nothing prints at all. Please advise.


Thank you

What distro do you have?

uname -a

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Have you install the print driver?

Have you ever been able to print anything on any of your printers? And on Zebra_TLP2844 in particular? What I'm trying to resolve here is whether we may have an installation problem or something else.
I did some experiments here for you to repeat. I only have one printer (called DCP7065DN) but I always used its name in commands as you will have to do. Also my printer is network connected rather than USB but I'm hoping that won't make a difference.

1. Nothing printing, printer online

09:02:09$ lpq -PDCP7065DN
DCP7065DN is ready
no entries

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2. As above but withdrew power cord from printer

(You might like to try a second test of removing the USB cable when printer turned on: the USB device should disappear in either test)

09:02:09$ lpq -PDCP7065DN
DCP7065DN is ready
no entries

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3. Send job to powered-off printer

09:03:23$ lpr -PDCP7065DN .bashrc
09:04:23$ lpq -PDCP7065DN
DCP7065DN is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  dunc    71      .bashrc                         3072 bytes

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4. Re-insert printer power cord

The job prints. lpq output reverts to its state at step 1.If your jobs are getting to the print queue but not to the printer then I would suspect that you have a printer driver problem. I only installed mine recently, and had that same problem (of jobs dropping on the floor) until I installed the printer driver from Brother (their Linux support is pretty good). In general, you need the exact right driver for your printer or it ain't gonna work. Jobs leave the print queue very quickly then: to see them you may have to do something like
lpr -PZebra_TLP2844 large_file.txt; lpq -PZebra_TLP2844

Sorry: No luck same result still.

$ uname -a
Linux s 3.11.0-18-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 18 21:11:14 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

* YES - without Zebra printer i have other printers which worked perfectly no issue 

* YES - i have installed Zebra driver which is open source CUPS only using apt-get install ...

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But its still same result, tried both of your advise.

Please suggest what else i can try. Its very weird that the printer do not react at all with Linux. Same Printer working under Windows 7 PC



Thank you

Try to add the printer via CUPS. See below -

http://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra/drivers/en/third-party/zsn108111-v3-en.pdf

YES - that is the exactly link i followed and then i have http://localhost:some port to access the printer of Zebra

But still with that i cant even yet print anything at all. (i followed there instruction from that same PDF link)

When you tried lpr -PZebra_TLP2844 large_file.txt; lpq -PZebra_TLP2844 where you need to find your own large file to print, did you see it in the Q? Please post actual output.
The file has to be big or it would disappear from the Q before lpq could run

YES - i created large file and apply to print as PDF which works but when i try to print it with Zebra it failing like begin. Also you can see the large_file.txt is in Queue too.

But nothing is printing at all.

$ cat > /tmp/large_file.txt << \EOF
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
i am testing testing testing not working
EOF

# TEST virtual PDF print if it works = that worked
$ lpr -P PDF /tmp/large_file.txt; lpq -P PDF

# REAL - world fails
$ lsusb | grep Zebra
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0a5f:000a Zebra

$ lpstat -p -d
printer LabelWriter-450 is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:47:06 AM CET
printer PDF is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 10:40:12 AM CET
printer Zebra_TLP2844 is idle.  enabled since Tue 25 Mar 2014 09:16:05 PM CET
	Rendering completed
system default destination: LabelWriter-450

$ lpr -P Zebra_TLP2844 /tmp/large_file.txt; lpq -P Zebra_TLP2844 # does not work
Zebra_TLP2844 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
1st     sun     123     Untitled Document 1             11264 bytes
active  sun     125     large_file.txt                  1024 bytes

$ lpq
LabelWriter-450 is ready
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
1st     sun     22      Untitled Document 1             11264 bytes
2nd     sun     32      Untitled Document 1             11264 bytes
3rd     sun     33      Untitled Document 1             11264 bytes
4th     sun     34      Untitled Document 1             11264 bytes
5th     sun     35      Untitled Document 1             11264 bytes
6th     sun     53      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
7th     sun     54      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
8th     sun     55      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
9th     sun     56      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
10th    sun     57      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
11th    sun     58      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
12th    sun     60      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
13th    sun     61      Untitled.png                    1024 bytes
14th    sun     95      test.txt                        1024 bytes
15th    sun     96      test.txt                        1024 bytes

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How long has Untitled Document 1 been in the Zebra_TLP2844 queue?
(have to go out for a bit now)

Untitled Document 1 - was printed from Gedit GUI i think it was since this morning now its Night, about 12 hours ago i guess.

large_file.txt - was printed via lpr command so that's recent

I had no luck yet, to see the printing with Zebra printer. Same printer works in Windows 7 64-bit PC.

Thank you, i will check tomorrow morning.

help me please
my printer Zebra GC420t , can print but Ink not work, i use it is in ubuntu 14.04

sackkalin,

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