[cups.general] Can't print

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Mon Jun 21 03:43:52 PDT 2004


Bill wrote:
> 
> Hi-
> 
> I recently upgraded to a newer version of cups and can not print.
> 
> In my cups error log I see:
> E [20/Jun/2004:23:45:01 -0700] Unable to convert file 0 to printable
> format for job 11!
That means CUPS could not determine the data format of the original 
print data. Check the beginning of your files and your mime.* files in 
/etc/cups.
> I [20/Jun/2004:23:45:01 -0700] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript
> installed?
> D [20/Jun/2004:23:45:01 -0700] CancelJob: id = 11
> 
> I googled some of the error terms and found a lot of messages about
> uncommenting application/octet-stream in mime.types and mime.convs to
> enable printing from samba, but I'm not using samba or trying to print
> for a windows box, and changing these options has no effect on my
> problem.
> 
> My gs -h list cups (it's actually the debian gs-esp package).
> 
> I don't know where else to look to debug this error. I have debuging
> turned up to debug2 in cupsd.conf and I'm still not getting enough
> information. Can someone give me a hint as to where to look?
> 
> I have the following debian packages installed from debian unstable,
> though I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times and less bleeding
> edge packages had the same problems:
> 
> cupsys 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4
> cupsys-bsd 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4
> cupsys-client 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4
> cupsys-driver-gimpprint 4.2.6-5
> cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data  4.2.6-5
> libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4
> gs-esp 7.07.1-8_
> 
> foomatic-bin 3.0.1-20040506-1
> foomatic-db 20040506-1
> foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-engine_3.0.1-20040506-1
> foomatic-db-gimp-print 4.2.6-5
> foomatic-db-hpijs  1.5-20040506
> foomatic-filters 3.0.1-20040506
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill

Helge


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