[cups] Need help setting up ethernet printer

[Jim Anderson]

Helge,

I am sorry it took me so long to respond. I have been very busy the past 
few weeks with non-technical stuff.

Anyway --- I have installed snmpd and it is now running on my system.

You mentioned cups-driverd for CUPS 1.5.x. I checked my PC and I have a 
manpage for cups-driverd, but I am not sure what I am supposed to do. 
The daemon is not currently running on the PC. I usually have some idea 
of what is going on, but after reading the manpage, I still don't have a 
clue as to what it is supposed to do. Can you help with an explanation 
of what I have to do with cups-driverd?

Thanks for you reply.

Jim A.



On 10/12/2014 08:15 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>
> Am 12.10.2014 um 08:21 schrieb Jim Anderson:
>
>>
>> I have a new brother 7640 all-in-one printer which I have connected 
>> to my home network using an ethernet cable. I am mostly running 
>> Crunchbang (debian) linux on my network, but I do have some windows 
>> PCs and Lubuntu running at times.
>>
>> I am running CUPS 1.5.3.
>>
>> The good news
>> _________________
>>
>> 1) I can ftp to the printer and I have downloaded the configuration 
>> file which I am attaching.
>>
>> 2) CUPS is up and running.
>>
>> 3) The all-in-one seems to be work, i.e. I can make copies with it.
>>
>> The bad news
>> _________________
>>
>> I have read the cups 'Using Network Printers' web page and I have 
>> experimented, but I have not been able to direct anything to the 
>> printer yet.
>>
>> 1) When I bring up CUPS at localhost:631, if I click on 'Find Printer 
>> Drivers', I get the message:
>>
>>
>>     Not Found
>>
>>   The requested URL /ppd.php was not found on this server.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Apache/2.2 Server at www.cups.org Port 80
>>
>>
>> I assume I need a driver for the all-in-one, but since it is not 
>> connected directly to a PC, maybe not. Do I need a driver or are the 
>> printer protocols intended to provide the software interface to a 
>> printer on the network?
>>
>> 2) When in my browser and I enter localhost:631/admin and then click 
>> on 'Find New Printers', my network printer is not detected.
>>
>>
>>
>> What I would like to do
>> _________________________
>>
>> I have a Dell 1130 printer connected to  a PC on my network and I can 
>> send a file for printing to it by using the command:
>>
>>     lp -d 1130 fileName
>>
>> Assuming I name the all-in-one, '7460', I would like to be able to 
>> direct a print job to it by using the command:
>>
>>     lp -d 7460 fileName
>>
>>
>> How do I configure CUPS to see my 7460 printer and reference it as 
>> '7460'. I don't really care what name I use, but '7460' would be ok.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jim Anderson
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>
> The "finding printers" of CUPS to my knowledge requires a properly 
> configured and running DNSSD (mDNS) or SNMP daemon,
> and, in case of CUPS 1.5.x, a running cups-driverd to look for the 
> requested PPDs.
>
> Check your system's configuration and provide a log-level debug 
> excerpt of your cups error_log from your next try.
>
> Helge
>
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