Problems printing to remote (LPR) printer

[Helge Blischke]

Tom Watson wrote:

>> Tom Watson wrote:
>>
>> >> Tom Watson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I have a remote printer attached to my nice router.  It has a nice
>> >> > print queue, and I have been able to print to it successfully using
>> >> > an older
>> >> > version of CPUP (v1.1.x it says on the test page).  The printer is a
>> >> > Cannon ip1600, and the URI that I use is "lpr://router/lpUSB0".  I
>> >> > have done a bit of investigation, and using TCPDUMP I was able to
>> >> > see that the "good" instance (the actual system is a Fedora 8 Linux
>> >> > box) emits about
>> >> > 1.9 Mbytes of data to the printer.  The "not working" instance (CUPS
>> >> > 1.5 from Fedora 16) emits around 176kbytes, and the printer swallows
>> >> > the data in about 1 second or so, with no output to the printer.
>> >> >
>> >> > Something is not right in my neighborhood, as this DOES work with an
>> >> > earlier instance of CUPS.  The only thing that I think that is
>> >> > happening is that somehow the driver doesn't go through the
>> >> > Postscript (Ghostscript) interpreter to get the raster data for the
>> >> > printer.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for the assistance.
>> >>
>> >> Can you please supply an error_log (log level debug) for a test print
>> >> of both the cups 1.1.x and cups 1.5.0 system?
>> >>
>> >> Helge
>> >>
>> >
>> >

Thanks for the log file. I saw that your cups 1.5.0 installation uses 
gutenprint 5.2.7 for this printer. The ip1600 is supported for the first 
time in this version but still marked as "EXPERIMENTAL" which means 
essentially untested.

Yout working configuration uses a canon proprietary filter named 
pstocanonij.

Before digging deeper into the gutenprint issue, I'd suggest to re-install 
the pstocanonij filter. I found installable packages for this printer 
(ip1600) at 
http://software.canon-europe.com .

As I do not know which system you are on, I cannot give more detailed 
information.

Helge