[cups.development] Snow Leopard printing error:/usr/libexec/cups/backend/lpd failed

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sun Feb 14 22:19:34 PST 2010


Dell printers also support port 9100 - try using "AppSocket" instead of "LPD".

On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:50 PM, akbar wrote:

> I have added the printer as below
> 1) Select “/System Preferences/” pane and click on “/Print & Fax/” under the section “/Hardware/”.
> 2) In “Print & Fax” pane, Click on “+” symbol to add the printer
> 3) In the new dialog displayed, select “IP“ icon in the top toolbar.
>  a) Select “Protocol” as “Line Printer Daemon – LPD”.
>  b) Key-in the IP Address of the network printer.
>  c) Assign Name as “DELL 3100cn” to the printer.
>  e) Select “Print Using” as “Generic PostScript Printer”.
>  f) Queue and Location are optional.
>  e) Now Click on “Add” button at the RHS bottom of the dialog.
> 4) Will display the “Print & Fax” pane with an entry of the printer added as below.
> 
> After doing this we opened text edit and keyed in text as "Test Message" and clicked on print.
> The print job is getting added to print queue and tries to print for sometime and then printer is getting paused.
> We tried resuming the print job but still it is going to Paused state.
> 
> Is this correct or do i need to add it differently? Please suggest....
> 
> Thanks
> Akbar
> 
> 
>> On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:11 AM, akbar wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In the printer window, choose "Log & History" from the Printer menu to =
>>>> see the CUPS error_log file. More than likely you'll see an error =
>>>> message explaining the problem.
>>>> 
>>>>> I found from some forums saying to install Rosetta in Snow Leopard may =
>>>> solve the print problems.I installed Rosettta but still its giving same =
>>>> message.
>>>> 
>>>> Rosetta will only help when using PowerPC printer drivers.
>>> 
>>> thanks for quick response, messages in the Log & History is below
>>> ...
>>> D [13/Feb/2010:01:02:03 -0800] [Job 3] Sending command string (20 bytes)...
>>> D [13/Feb/2010:01:02:03 -0800] [Job 3] Reading command status...
>>> D [13/Feb/2010:01:02:03 -0800] [Job 3] lpd_command returning 2
>> 
>> 
>> This looks like you are using the wrong queue name for the LPD printer.
>> 
>> ___________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>> 
>> 
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