hpijs/hplip, foomatic-rip, and CUPS 1.2.0
Anthony Agelastos
iqgrande at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 11:24:13 UTC 2006
On Jul 16, 2006, at 11:19 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 10:08 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>>> For future reference, please don't post to both -ports and -
>>>>> questions.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for this clarification.
>>>>
>>>>> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>>>> Does anyone out there have network printing working with hpijs/
>>>>>> hplip and
>>>>>> CUPS 1.2.0?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. You need to follow the instructions at
>>>>> file:///usr/local/share/doc/hplip-0.9.11/install/step4/cups/
>>>>> net.html
>>>>
>>>> I do not think I explained my situation very well. This printer
>>>> (hp LaserJet 1160Le) is connected directly to my FreeBSD server
>>>> via USB. If I print something logged on the server (via lp for
>>>> instance), it prints. I wish to print to this printer from all
>>>> of the computers on my LAN. When I try to print something from
>>>> one of these computers, that is when it bombs and displays the
>>>> foomatic-rip error message (foomatic-rip failed).
>>>>
>>>> The directions on that sheet appear to be if I wanted to print
>>>> to this network printer that wasn't directly connected to the
>>>> FreeBSD server. Am I mistaken about this? Also, there is no
>>>> button on the printer that will print such a page, so I would
>>>> have to figure out how to find this IP address by other means. I
>>>> cannot see how to find it in the CUPS web interface. I assume
>>>> CUPS issues it an IP address.
>>>>
>>>> The error_log that I have posted on previous threads is attached
>>>> to this email (the successful print jobs were done locally while
>>>> the error occurred when I printed to the printer from my MacBook
>>>> Pro). Does anyone have any suggestions? I should note that prior
>>>> to the CUPS upgrade to 1.2.0 (and the recent gnutls update), my
>>>> setup was working (I was able to print from the server itself as
>>>> well as all of the rest of the computers on my LAN). I have
>>>> rebuilt all packages several times (except for the OS).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On my MacBook Pro, when I go to the CUPS web interface, I see
>>>> the following for the printer:
>>>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le at 192.168.0.3 HP LaserJet 1160 Foomatic/
>>>> hpijs (recommended) Description: hp LaserJet 1160Le
>>>> Location: Den
>>>> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
>>>>
>>>> 192.168.0.3 is the IP address of my FreeBSD server on my LAN. It
>>>> looks as if Mac OS X 10.4.7 runs CUPS 1.1.23, but I could be
>>>> mistaken. It has found the printer through Bonjour (zeroconf I
>>>> believe is another name for it), so I didn't have to do any
>>>> configuring. Could there be an incompatibility within these
>>>> versions of CUPS? I have found the following page which lists
>>>> several issues and talks about how CUPS 1.2.0 is broken in
>>>> several places. Could one of these be the issue?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42391
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On a sidenote, I was having difficulties installing hpijs when
>>>>>> hplip was
>>>>>> already installed
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on that.
>>>> Thank you for your assistance on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
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>>> You need to restart CUPS when the printer "attaches" via USB or
>>> else CUPS won't know about the USB port and you'll get this error
>>> every time.
>>
>> I just did a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart and then printed
>> something from my laptop. Same error.
>> dell# lpstat -t
>> scheduler is running
>> no system default destination
>> device for Create_PDF: cups-pdf:/
>> device for hp_LaserJet_1160Le: /dev/ulpt0
>> Create_PDF accepting requests since Sun Jun 25 11:27:52 2006
>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le accepting requests since Sun Jul 16 22:36:15 2006
>> printer Create_PDF is idle. enabled since Sun Jun 25 11:27:52 2006
>> printer hp_LaserJet_1160Le is idle. enabled since Sun Jul 16
>> 22:36:15 2006
>> /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed
>> hp_LaserJet_1160Le-30 iqgrande 7168 Sun Jul 16
>> 22:36:02 2006
>>
>>
>>>
>>> jmc
>>
>>
> What are the permissions/ownership on /dev/ulpt0?
>
> jmc
It is possible that the group "cups" was setup incorrectly by me. How
do I check this? What properties do you have for this group?
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