[cups.general] foomatic & pstoraster with cups-1.3.5

[Michael Sweet]

John Frankish wrote:
> I have compiled cups-1.3.5 and epsgs-8.15.4 from source and am looking 
> to use cups to print to HP Officejet G85 and K80 printers connected via 
> a usb port. This is on a 2.4.31 kernel.
> 
> The first thing I noticed was that cups did not automatically detect any 
> printer, but when I execute the usb backend my printer is detected. The 
> browser interface does not list any usb ports, so I used the ipp 
> selection from the drop-down list and entered the uri generated by the 
> usb backend (usb://HP/OfficeJet%20K80?serial=ES0911401VOH). Is it normal 
> that cups does not list a usb port with a printer connected?
> 
> If I use the cups browser interface to install the deskjet ppd file 
> included with cups and try to print the test page, it gets stuck at 0% 
> printed with a cpu utilisation of 100%. The error log (level debug) does 
> not show any errors but repeats the same sequence many times.
> 
> If I use the cups browser interface to install the officejet K80 ppd 
> from hplip, then cups complains about missing foomatic-rip. I thought 
> the epsgs pstoraster filter was meant to replace foomatic-rip - is this 
> not the case?

No, foomatic-rip is its own thing - you need to contact the foomatic
folks on linuxprinting.org for assistance...

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com