[cups.general] foomatic-rip failed

[Till Kamppeter]

There are known problems with foomatic-rip and printing from Windows 
clients. Please file a bug on

http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/

for the product "OpenPrinting" and the component "foomatic-filters". 
Please bring CUPS into debug logging mode via

cupsctl LogLevel=debug

or on older CUPS versions by having a line

LogLevel debug

in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and restarting CUPS by "/etc/init.d/cups 
restart". You need root rights (or at least preceed your commands by 
"sudo") on most systems to execute the commands. Then clean up with

cancel -a

and send a new job from your Windows client. After that take 
/var/log/cups/error_log and attach it to your bug report.

    Till


Gerry wrote:
> I have an HPDeskjet D1420 connect to a Debian/ Testing Samba PDC.  I used cupsaddsmb to generate the drivers for a WinXP client.  The client can install the printer, but when I try to print a test page, the job stops and I get a "foomatic-rip failed" message.  The Debian box can print to the printer, so i know that half of the equation is working.
> 
> I've been hunting around, but have been unable to turn up something resembling this problem on message boards.  Any help is appreciated.
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