cups problems on 10.3 release both Epson and HP

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:18:17 -0600 Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> wrote:
> 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.

Did you restart cupsd after installing cups-filters: service cupsd restart

In /usr/local/etc/cups are there any differences between cups-files.conf
and cups-files.conf.sample, cupsd.conf and cupsd.conf.sample or snmp.conf
and snmp.conf.sample?  It's best to stop cupsd before making any changes
to these files: service cupsd stop

For the HP printer there's official support in print/hplip, but the generic
PCL driver included with CUPS probably works too.

For the Epson printer you'll probably need print/gutenprint-cups.