[cups.general] Fwd: Re: foomatic & pstoraster with cups-1.3.5

[John Frankish]

>
>Subject: Re: [cups.general] foomatic & pstoraster with cups-1.3.5
>
>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?

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:13:47 -0800
From: Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com>

>No, foomatic-rip is its own thing - you need to contact the foomatic
>folks on linuxprinting.org for assistance...
>
>--
Thanks - I installed foomatic-rip and that problem went away. Now I 
get an error about hpijs being missing - maybe this is due to 
compiling epsgs with the --with-ijs switch. At this rate I'll have 
compiled an entire operating system only to print...

I still don't understand why cups does not find the usb attached printer.