Cannot print to OCE 9400 plotter...

sleepy sleepy at williams-int.com
Tue Dec 13 13:15:13 PST 2005


Hello all,

I am having trouble printing to an OCE 9400 plotter.  I have obtained the PPD file from Oce's website, and added the printer in the CUPS web interface.  The current device URI is  socket://OCE-2:9100.

The problem comes when actually printing files.  Test pages sent from the CUPS page, and actual drawing files sent from remote machines show up in the Jobs list as 'completed'; but blank pages are all that come out of the plotter.  Could the error be in how the printer is defined w/in CUPS?  (ie AppSocket/JetDirect vs. LPD/LPR vs. another config)  I have included a portion of the error.log to hopefully provide some detail:

I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Setting Oce-2 device-uri to "socket://OCE-2:9100" (was "socket://OCE2:9100".)
I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Setting Oce-2 printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 1.)
I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Setting Oce-2 printer-state to 3 (was 5.)
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] add_printer: Copied PPD file successfully!
I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Saving printers.conf...
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob(65, 1d18e0)
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob() id = 65, file = 0/1
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] job-sheets=none,none
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] banner_page = 0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: argv = "Oce-2","65","root","Test Page","1","","/opt/sfw/cups/var/spool/cups/d00065-001"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en_US"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[5]="TZ=US/Michigan"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[6]="PPD=/opt/sfw/cups/etc/cups/ppd/Oce-2.ppd"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[7]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/opt/sfw/cups/etc/cups"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[8]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[9]="TMPDIR=/opt/sfw/cups/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[10]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/postscript"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[11]="DEVICE_URI=socket://OCE-2:9100"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[12]="PRINTER=Oce-2"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_DATADIR=/opt/sfw/cups/share/cups"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/opt/sfw/cups/share/cups/fonts"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[15]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: envp[16]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: statusfds = [ 10 11 ]
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 13 -1 ]
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: filter = "/opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 14 15 ]
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] start_process("/opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstops", ffbebd20, ffbeb090, 13, 15, 11)
I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Started filter /opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2781) for job 65.
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: backend = "/opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/backend/socket"
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ -1 13 ]
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] start_process("/opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/backend/socket", ffbebd20, ffbeb090, 14, 13, 11)
I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Started backend /opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 2782) for job 65.
I [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] Printer 'Oce-2' modified by 'root'.
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] ProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] slowcollate=0, slowduplex=0, sloworder=0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%Pages: 1
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%LanguageLevel: 1
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset testprint/1.1
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Times-Roman
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%Creator: Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%CreationDate: May 11, 1999
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%Title: Test Page
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%EndComments
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%BeginProlog
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%BeginResource procset testprint 1.1 0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%EndResource
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%EndProlog
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%Page: 1 1
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%Page: 1 1
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] pw = 576.0, pl = 720.0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] PageTop = 756.0, PageBottom = 36.0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] 0 %%EOF
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] [Job 65] Saw EOF!
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] CloseClient: 8
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] UpdateJob: job 65, file 0 is complete.
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] CancelJob: id = 65
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StopJob: id = 65, force = 0
D [12/Dec/2005:09:35:02 +0500] StopJob: printer state is 3

Thanks in advance for any info,


sleepy




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