[cups] IP110 printer left margin too small Kubuntu 16.04
Xen
list at xenhideout.nl
Wed Apr 13 06:33:19 PDT 2016
I just made a print, now suddenly I get this screen:
http://www.xen.dds.nl/f/i/screenshots/printer-unavailable-file-descriptor.png
After "service cups restart" it is back to normal again.
Xen schreef op 13-04-16 15:29:
> In stalled my IP110 in Kubunt/KDE 16.04 using the script provided by Canon.
>
> This driver hasn't been updated by Canon since september 2014.
>
> It used to work for me in Kubuntu 14.10.
>
> When I print, I get a left-margin on all prints that is about 1cm too
> small, and a right margin that is about 1cm too large so a displacement
> to the left of about 1cm.
>
> The printer in Kubuntu 14.10 was not installed by default. I found that
> it was already installed in 16.04, apparently, since after installing I
> now had two printers.
>
> Both "drivers" do the same thing.
>
> I then tried removing both printers from the KDE configuration dialog.
> That seemed to work.
>
> When I tried to reinstall the driver using the script (./install.sh in
> that directory) it seems to register the printer but then tries to
> restart cups, and this hangs:
>
> <fail> -- it did hang but now it finished.
>
> Maybe I should have waited longer but what I did in the end was
> uininstall cups with apt remove --purge cups*, and then reinstalled it.
>
> Uninstalling also failed because "systemctl stop cups.path" hung, and
> "systemctl restart cups.service" also hung. Eventually I removed
> cups.service from some /etc directory and eventually the uninstall
> completed. Then I reinstalled and reinstalled the driver. It hung again
> for a while but apparently finished.
>
> Now in KDE the driver is persisently available (the printer). What used
> to happen was that the driver would show up in the screen (the printer)
> but when I exited and returned, it was empty, and the display showed two
> captions such as "PrinterName" - that sort of thing, it seemed like
> captions that ought to be filled with something but that showed its
> default text. Two of them.
>
> Also uinstalling/removing the printers from KDE did not clear those
> printers' entries in /etc/cups.
>
> So I mean that after removing the printers at first, and reinstalling it
> using the script, the driver would not persisently keep showing up
> probably because the cups daemon or service needed to be restarted for
> that, but that hung for long periods of time.
>
> I never waited that out, I waited at least a minute for it.
>
> Now having reinstalled and being successful in that, the print margin
> problem is still the same.
>
> ----------------------------
>
>
> So to recap, apart from my driver / printer
> uninstallation/reinstallation troubles:
>
>
> I am pretty sure that in KDE 4 with Kubuntu 14.10 I never had this issue.
> Now in KDE 5 with Kubuntu 16.04 I do have this issue.
>
> The driver itself did not change, nor the installer package, still the
> same file.
>
> There is a horizontal displacement on any printed page from any
> application of about 1cm to the left on A4 paper.
>
> As if printing with a negative margin (in addition to what the
> program/application does).
>
> The CUPS version is:
>
> 2.1.3-4
>
> Dpkg -l cups* | grep ii:
>
> ii cups 2.1.3-4 amd64
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface
> ii cups-browsed 1.8.3-2ubuntu2 amd64
> OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - cups-browsed
> ii cups-client 2.1.3-4 amd64
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
> ii cups-common 2.1.3-4 all
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
> ii cups-core-drivers 2.1.3-4 amd64
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD-less printing
> ii cups-daemon 2.1.3-4 amd64
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - daemon
> ii cups-filters 1.8.3-2ubuntu2 amd64
> OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - Main Package
> ii cups-filters-core-drivers 1.8.3-2ubuntu2 amd64
> OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - PPD-less printing
> ii cups-ppdc 2.1.3-4 amd64
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities
> ii cups-server-common 2.1.3-4 all
> Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server common files
>
> dpkg -l *cups | grep ii: (minus cups)
>
> ii python3-cups 1.9.73-0ubuntu2 amd64
> Python3 bindings for CUPS
>
> Printer driver:
>
> ii cnijfilter2 5.00-1 amd64
> IJ Printer Driver for Linux.
>
> It appears there has been a regression, but I do not know what or why.
>
>
>
> Direct question: can I manually 'displace the thing back'?
>
> Is there some setting where I can just displace everything to the right
> apart from increasing the left margin in the settings dialog for the
> printer?
>
> I mean, if I do that, I am not sure what is going to happen to the right
> margin.
>
> Kudos, Bart.
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