[cups-devel] Remote and local printing problems

[Joel Miller]

I am posting this message to the user and developer lists.

I have installed openSuse 13.1 (clean, new install, stock with initial 
updates only) on two machines in a network, one of which has an HP 
Laserjet 4050 printer, connected to a SIIG PCI card with parallel port 
recognized and configured by openSuSE 13.1, driver: HP LaserJet 4050 
Series Postscript (recommended).

I can print locally through LibreOffice and VirtuaBox running Windows XP 
but not through KDE applications (e.g., KATE, terminal).  Printing from 
the remote machine fails on many applications, but does work via Samba 
when the local machine is running Windows XP.  I have tried using every 
driver available on openprinting.org to no avail.  Some of the history 
and logs can be viewed at: 
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=120835  See also: 
https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/247789

Under Samba, I had no problems printing with this printer for about ten 
years, but now I am not able to print properly in a pure Linux 
environment.  I am unable to determine whether this a driver issue, a 
change in CUPS, an intermittent problem caused by the parallel port 
configuration, or something else altogether.

All suggestions welcome.