[cups.general] "Find New Printers" isn't working.

[Michael Sweet]

Do you already have a print queue setup for this printer?


On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm at muc.de> wrote:

> I'm in CUPS's html localhost:631 interface.  I click on "Find New Printers", and CUPS replies with "No printers found".  There is a USB laser printer attached to the system, and it is switched on.
> 
> When I run /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb, I get
> 
>    direct usb://Samsung/ML-1450 "Samsung ML-1450" "Samsung ML-1450" "MFG:Samsung;CMD:PCL5E,PCL6;MDL:ML-1450;CLS:PRINTER;" ""
> 
> , so the printer is definitely talking to the PC.
> 
> My system is an up-to-date Gentoo, running on Linux 3.3.8.  Its kernel currently has CONFIG_USB_PRINTER enabled; to compensate for this, the Gentoo usb "use flag" is disabled for the package "cups".  Reversing the state of these two items doesn't help.
> 
> Please help me debug my broken setup, and get CUPS to recognise my printer.
> 
> TIA!
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair