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

[John Frankish]

>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:46:03 +0400
>To: cups at easysw.com
>From: John Frankish <frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com>
>Subject: Fwd: Re: [cups.general] foomatic & pstoraster with cups-1.3.5
>
>>
>>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.
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So now I've compiled cups-1.3.5 epsgs-8.15.4 foomatic-filters-3.0 and 
hpijs-2.1.4 from source and I still cannot print the test page from 
the browser interface. The log level is set to debug in cupsd.conf - 
there are no errors shown, but the cpu sticks at 100% and nothing prints.

Any ideas?