cups problems on 10.3 release both Epson and HP

[Gary Aitken]

On 11/05/16 16:37, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 12:58:12 -0600 Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> wrote:
>> Is anyone successfully using cups on 10.3?
>> I was using version 2.0.3 of cups on 9.2 ok, 
>> but after installing 10.3 and cups 2.2.1 neither my Epson 3880 nor HP Officejet
>> Pro 8500 works.
>> Both of the printers are installed as networked printers, 
>> using the socket://...:9100 interface.
>>
>> From the web interface to cups, 
>> if I ask for the Epson to print its self-test page,
>> the printer activates and the green light above the power button starts blinking,
>> and never quits blinking -- it's as if the printer is perpetually busy.  I have
>> to turn it off and on to reset it.
>> For the HP, I get a page that says something to the effect that if you can read
>> this page you are using the wrong driver.
>>
>> I tried all of the epson 3880 drivers listed in the cups drop-down, plus
>> the 4600 one; there was no driver for the officejet pro 8500 listed so I
>> tried using a different one (which had worked under cups 2.0.3 on 9.2) and
>> also the one in the gutenprint 5.2.10 installation.
>>
>> ideas?
> 
> Did you install print/cups-filters?

I had other foomatic filters installed which conflicted; just uninstalled 
that stuff and installed print/cups-filters, with no change in behavior. 

If it's of any help, the HP prints out:

%!
  userdict dup(\004)cvn{}put  (\004\004)cvn{}put

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%% If you can read this, you are using the wrong driver for your printer. %%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Epson still wakes up and sits there waiting for something to finish being sent,
I think.