Snow Leopard printing error:/usr/libexec/cups/backend/lpd failed

akbar akbarbasha at tataelxsi.co.in
Sun Feb 14 21:50:50 PST 2010


I have added the printer as below
1) Select “/System Preferences/” pane and click on “/Print & Fax/” under the section “/Hardware/”.
2) In “Print & Fax” pane, Click on “+” symbol to add the printer
3) In the new dialog displayed, select “IP“ icon in the top toolbar.
  a) Select “Protocol” as “Line Printer Daemon – LPD”.
  b) Key-in the IP Address of the network printer.
  c) Assign Name as “DELL 3100cn” to the printer.
  e) Select “Print Using” as “Generic PostScript Printer”.
  f) Queue and Location are optional.
  e) Now Click on “Add” button at the RHS bottom of the dialog.
4) Will display the “Print & Fax” pane with an entry of the printer added as below.

After doing this we opened text edit and keyed in text as "Test Message" and clicked on print.
The print job is getting added to print queue and tries to print for sometime and then printer is getting paused.
We tried resuming the print job but still it is going to Paused state.

Is this correct or do i need to add it differently? Please suggest....

Thanks
Akbar


> On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:11 AM, akbar wrote:
> >
> >> In the printer window, choose "Log & History" from the Printer menu to =
> >> see the CUPS error_log file. More than likely you'll see an error =
> >> message explaining the problem.
> >>
> >>> I found from some forums saying to install Rosetta in Snow Leopard may =
> >> solve the print problems.I installed Rosettta but still its giving same =
> >> message.
> >>
> >> Rosetta will only help when using PowerPC printer drivers.
> >
> > thanks for quick response, messages in the Log & History is below
> > ...
> > D [13/Feb/2010:01:02:03 -0800] [Job 3] Sending command string (20 bytes)...
> > D [13/Feb/2010:01:02:03 -0800] [Job 3] Reading command status...
> > D [13/Feb/2010:01:02:03 -0800] [Job 3] lpd_command returning 2
>
>
> This looks like you are using the wrong queue name for the LPD printer.
>
> ___________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
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