[cups] Trouble with network printers

[Michael Sweet]

Jim,

The dnssd backend is not able to resolve the service on the network - is Avahi running on your system? What do you see if you run "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd" by itself?

> On Oct 28, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Jim Anderson <jim_anderson at jjajava.com> wrote:
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> 
> 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:
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> 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:
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> 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:
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>      linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1
> 
> that was provided by Brother-USA.
> 
> The script seemed to run ok.
> 
> When I run:
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> 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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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair