[cups] Trouble with network printers

Jim Anderson jim_anderson at jjajava.com
Tue Oct 28 13:01:29 PDT 2014


I have add a new printer to network. It has an IP address of 
192.168.0.230. When I look at the CUPS web page at localhost:631 and 
seleded administration --> manage printers, I see the printer:


	
	
	
	
MFC7460DN <http://localhost:631/printers/MFC7460DN> 	MFC7460DN 	
	Brother MFC7460DN for CUPS 	Paused - "Destination printer does not exist!"


So CUPS sees the printer, but I guess is not configured properly.

In /etc/cups/printer.conf, the brother printer shows up with the 
following section:

  20 <Printer MFC7460DN>
  21 Info MFC7460DN
  22 MakeModel Brother MFC7460DN for CUPS
  23 DeviceURI dnssd://Brother%20MFC-7460DN._ipp._tcp.local/
  24 State Stopped
  25 StateMessage Destination printer does not exist!
  26 StateTime 1414526145
  27 Reason paused
  28 Type 8392724
  29 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
  30 Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brlpdwrapperMFC7460DN
  31 Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops
  32 Accepting Yes
  33 Shared Yes
  34 JobSheets none none
  35 QuotaPeriod 0
  36 PageLimit 0
  37 KLimit 0
  38 OpPolicy default
  39 ErrorPolicy stop-printer
  40 Attribute marker-colors \#000000,#000000
  41 Attribute marker-levels -1,99
  42 Attribute marker-names Black Toner Cartridge,Drum Unit
  43 Attribute marker-types toner,opc
  44 Attribute marker-change-time 1414526145
  45 </Printer>

so it looks like it should be able to find the printer.

I have downloaded the following drivers from Brother-USA.com:

brfaxmodem-1.1.3-1.i386.deb
brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.0-1.all.deb
brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.amd64.deb
mfc7460dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb
brmfcfaxcups-1.0.0-1.i386.deb
brscan4-0.4.2-3.amd64.deb
brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.i386.deb
brmfcfaxlpd-1.0.0-1.i386.deb
brscan4-0.4.2-3.i386.deb

and ran the install script:

       linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1

that was provided by Brother-USA.

The script seemed to run ok.

When I run:

lp -dMFC7460DN  testfile

the file gets spooled, but it does not print. The job status in CUPS is:


MFC7460DN <http://localhost:631/printers/MFC7460DN>-30 	outputfile 
jja 	1k 	Unknown 	pending since
Tue 28 Oct 2014 03:55:44 PM EDT
/"Destination printer does not exist!"/




Can anyone help with getting jobs to print?

Jim Anderson




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