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

[Michael Sweet]

John Frankish wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> ---
> 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?

Sorry, no.  Since the problem occurs with HP's drivers, you might try
filing a bug on the HPLIP site...

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com