[cups] New printer difficulty identified

[Brian Potkin]

On Sat 30 Apr 2016 at 16:54:47 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:

> I am honing in on my difficulty, I believe.  I remind that I have
> a three-in-one Canon imageCLASS MF4770n.
> 
> I have reinstalled cups and reinstalled the printer.  I can't print
> the simplest thing.  I have pursued the error dialog boxes, and
> they state that the file
>      /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca
> doesn't exist.  This is a True Fact<G>.

You have a PPD file for this printer. It likely has a *cupsFilter line
which mentions "pstoufr2cpca". Please would you confirm this? If the
line is present it raises the question of how you ever got any jobs
printed on Wheezy if pstoufr2cpca is missing.

> I have googled, and the responses are for a Ubuntu system, with
> commands like apt-add-repository. . . . ? ? ?
> 
> pstoufr2cpca, anyone?  TIA for advice/suggestions!

The specifications for your printer give the printer language (what CUPS
has to send to it) as UFR II LT. Please see the Printing section of the
Debian wiki. Canon do not seem to make it very easy to get your hands on
pstoufr2cpca (and other needed files) but at least they provide deb
files within a tarball (.tar.gz) which you can download from

  http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0100270808.html

Install what you need with 'dpkg -i file.deb' and resolve dependencies
with 'apt-get -f install'.

Regards,

Brian.