[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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