Still cannot print

[Bernd Krumböck]

Bernd Krumböck wrote:

> Peter wrote:
> 
>> Having tried for about a week to get CUPS 1.2 to install properly with no
>> success, I wiped the Linux partition and reinstalled CentOS; this is a
>> fresh install.
>> 
>> I installed the CUPS 1.2 drivers from source with no problems. 
>> Downloaded the PPD for my HP 6110 all-in-wonder from linuxprinting.org
>> and copied it
>> to /usr/share/cups/model.  In the CUPS web interface it had discovered
>> two new printers:
>> 
>>      Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet 6100 Series (Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet
>>      6100 Series) HP OfficeJet 6100 Series (HP OfficeJet 6100 Series USB
>>      #1) HP OfficeJet 6100 Series (HP OfficeJet 6100 Series HPLIP)
>> 
>> I have gone through the dialog for each printer, selected the printer
>> from
>> the list, etc.  In neither case is CUPS able to print a test page.
>> 
>> CUPS returns the following error message:
>> "usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
>> 
>> The printer worked fine with the previous version of CUPS.
>> 
>> Ideas?
> 
> Hello Peter!
> 
> 
> The filter "foomatic-rip" is missed. This is part of the foomatic project.
> 
> Your PPD file contains a line like this one:
> *cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"
> 
> 
> Please read http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
> 
> At least you have to download and install
>
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-3.0.2.tar.gz
> 
> I also suggest to install ghostscript (you can find on CUPS homepage),
> before you install foomatic-filters!
> 
> 
> best regards!
> 
> Bernd


I forgot to say:

(the easy way)

Maybe you can install ghostscript and foomatic-filters with the package
manager of you operating system (Yast, apt, ...).

In this case you only need to create a symbolic link
in /usr/lib/cups/filter/ which targets to the foomatic-rip binary.


mfg
Bernd