hpijs/hplip, foomatic-rip, and CUPS 1.2.0

[Anthony Agelastos]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:04 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:

> Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>>>
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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
>>
>> %ls -l /dev/ulpt0
>> crw-rw----  1 root  cups    0,  68 Jul 16 22:36 /dev/ulpt0
>>
>>
>>
> Same as I have.  CUPS works for me if I restart it after the USB  
> printer attaches.  If I don't restart it, then I get the same error  
> you're reporting.
>
> jmc

I wonder what the difference is between our machines. What printer do  
you use (and drivers)?