won't print over network

Frank Neuhaus unununium at gmx.net
Tue Aug 15 04:35:46 PDT 2006


Hello,

My HP deksjet 5652 and LaserJet 5 w/ PS-module & 6MB RAM are connected to my Router / Printserver (Debian testing, cups 1.2.2-1). Both of them work just fine when trying to print the testpage at the Router (there's nothing else to print). Also my girlfriend can print without problems (WinXP, ipp).

When I try to print (Debian testing, cups 1.2.2-1) the printer doesn't even think about moving¹, and http://printserver:631/printers/LaserJet5 says "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopxl failed" respectively http://printserver:631/printers/deskjet5652 says "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertohp failed". Both printers seem to receive some data: LJ5 says "Receiving data" for about 1 second, DJ5652's Powerbutton starts blinking, and never stops.
When I try to print a testpage on the LJ5 after this message occured the first outcoming page is:

"PCL XL error
Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: IllegalTag
Operator: 0x1b
Position: 2"

By using google I found out that this should be a driver problem; but why does it work on the other machine?

Reading printserver's error_log gave me these errors:
[LJ5]:
[...]
E [14/Aug/2006:13:36:09 +0200] [Job 208] /syntaxerror in -file-
[...]
E [14/Aug/2006:13:36:09 +0200] PID 22399 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopxl) stopped with status 1!
[...]
[/LJ5]

[DJ5652]
[...]
E [15/Aug/2006:13:26:22 +0200] Unable to open listen socket for address :::631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
[...]
E [15/Aug/2006:13:26:32 +0200] [Job 228] No pages found!
[...]
E [15/Aug/2006:13:26:32 +0200] PID 10918 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertohp) stopped with status 1!
[...]
[/DJ5652]
If anybody wants the complete logfile I'll send it, of course! It was just too long to paste.


I'm quiet sure that my computer is the problem, but I can't figure it something out... I've tried to reinstall printers on both printserver and my computer, reinstalled cups and tried to use the printserver's .ppd, although they should have been the same.

Thanks for your help,
Frank

¹Forgot something: The LJ5 sometimes prints "IB". I don't know, how to influence this behaviour...but it didn't occur for a long time - maybe it doesn't happen any longer.




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