[cups] only one machine won't print

[Helge Blischke]

Did you install the cups-filters package from openprinting? 

Helge

> Am 19.01.2016 um 20:22 schrieb hymie! <hymie at lactose.homelinux.net>:
> 
> Greetings.  I hope somebody can help me.  I'm really at my wits' end.
> 
> I have a mixed environment at home, 2 Slackware Linux machines and a Windows
> 8 machine, and a networked Brother MFC-J630W.
> 
> For the longest time, everything worked great.  Not too long ago, one (and
> just one) of the Linux machines stopped printing.  I've checked a bunch of
> things, too many to list, and I don't know where the problem is or what I
> did to cause it.
> 
> I started with this error
> 
> Unsupported format "application/vnd.cups-banner".
> 
> which led me to this thread
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.cups.general/28098
> 
> which led me to this comment:
> 
>   What you'll need to do is set the LogLevel to debug2 with:
> 
> 	cupsctl LogLevel=debug2
> 
>   and then run:
> 
> 	grep add_printer_filter /var/log/cups/error_log
> 
>   I'm guessing that the drivers you are using are specifying filters that do
>   not exist...
> 
> I ran this command and got
> 
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter(p=0xb787b198(J630W),
> filtertype=0xb787b7d8(printer/J630W), filter="application/vnd.cups-raw
> application/octet-stream 0 -")
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter: J630W: adding filter
> application/vnd.cups-raw printer/J630W/application/octet-stream 0 -
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter: J630W: adding filter
> printer/J630W/application/octet-stream printer/J630W 0 -
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter(p=0xb787b198(J630W),
> filtertype=0xb787b7d8(printer/J630W),
> filter="application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brlpdwrappermfcj630w")
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter: J630W: adding filter
> application/vnd.cups-postscript printer/J630W 0 brlpdwrappermfcj630w
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter(p=0xb787b198(J630W),
> filtertype=0xb787b7d8(printer/J630W), filter="application/vnd.cups-command
> application/postscript 100 commandtops")
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter: J630W: adding filter
> application/vnd.cups-command printer/J630W/application/postscript 100
> commandtops
> d [19/Jan/2016:14:01:15 -0500] add_printer_filter: J630W: adding filter
> printer/J630W/application/postscript printer/J630W 0 -
> 
> (which means nothing to me).  Then I found this page:
> 
> http://www.bsmdevelopment.com/Reference/Tech_20130002.html
> 
> which suggested I replace the /usr/share/cups/data/testprint file.  So I no
> longer get the cups-banner error, but I'm still not getting anything out of
> my printer.  Every job appears to end in this state:
> 
> J630W-257  	Test Page  	anonymous  	17k  	Unknown     completed at
> Tue 19 Jan 2016 01:56:17 PM EST 
> "No pages found!"
> 
> Tax season is coming up, and I'd really like to print my tax forms. :)  If
> there's any troubleshooting that somebody can point me to, I'd really
> appreciate it.
> 
> --hymie!
> 
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