[SOLVED]cups "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" error

[tj]

Found the problem. The ./configure of min12xxw-0.0.9 put the driver in /usr/local/bin and I guess cups was not finding it. Putting it in /usr/bin solved the problem.

> As usual getting a printer working is like pulling teeth.
>
> I have a Minolta PagePro 1350W. I start cups, use locahost:631 and Minolta-PagePro_1350W-min12xxw.ppd file on USB. Admin page reports:
>
> Description: Minolta PagePro 1350W
> Location: Den
> Printer Driver: Minolta PagePro 1350W Foomatic/min12xxw (recommended)
> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
> Device URI: usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/PP1350W
>
> However, when I try to print the test pageI get:
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
> at the top of the printer admin page and the job stopped.
>
> Here is clip from error log:
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] Last OS error: 32
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] renderer exited with status 127
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] kid3 exited with status 1
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] Process is dying with "Error closing renderer
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] ", exit stat 1
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] Cleaning up...
> E [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] PID 3735 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1!
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] PID 3736 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) exited with no errors.
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] File 0 is complete.
> E [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] [Job 6] Job stopped due to filter errors.
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:19 -0500] Discarding unused job-stopped event...
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:20 -0500] [Job 6] Unloading...
> D [31/Jan/2010:10:20:21 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 13 GET /printers/Minolta HTTP/1.1
>
> Slackware 13
>
> tj