[cups-devel] [UNKN] STR #4740: HP printing failed with message /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed

[Johannes Meixner]

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Only FYI:

As far as I see this has nothing to do with CUPS.

As far as I see the first error message comes from Ghostscript:
"Unable to open the initial device, quitting"
(this is in Ghostscript's gs_init.ps file).

Therefore Ghostscript does not produce any output which
lets then the filter from HP's HPLIP driver software
error out with "cupsRasterOpen failed" and finally
the HP backend errors out with "ERROR: null print job".

Neither Ghostscript nor HP's HPLIP driver software
belong to CUPS so that the issue does not belong to CUPS
(according to my analysis).

I guess that somehow the "Ghostscript command line"
is not correct or does not work as it should.
Usually this is alos no bug in Ghostscript but
"somewhere else" where the Ghostscript command line
with all its parameters is created.

I recommed to analyze what the actual root cause is
that you report this issue at your Linux distribution.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4740
Version: 1.5.3
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