[cups] Printing CCITT and JBIG2 encoded images fails

[Emilio Reggi]

Installing the latest Canon drivers (3.40;
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/) and common libraries
(3.80) did the trick.
Thanks to everybody for all the help :)
Emilio


Am 28.07.2017 um 16:57 schrieb Emilio Reggi:
> Helge,
> 
> and everybody else in this thread: thank you for your patient and
> competent help.
> I contacted the maintainer of the respective package
> (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/) and reffered him/her
> to this thread.
> As soon as I have the latest version installed I will get back here with
> the results.
> 
> Have a nice weekend!
> Emilio
> 
> Am 28.07.2017 um 13:12 schrieb Helge Blischke:
>>
>>> Am 28.07.2017 um 12:55 schrieb Emilio Reggi <nag at mailbox.org>:
>>>
>>> Helge,
>>>
>>> thank you very much for this helpful tip. Commenting the '*cupsFilter'
>>> line in the PPD indeed returned readable PS files. However, using the
>>> printer with did not succeed with the error "filterFailed", adding
>>> multiple printing tasks to the queue and returning blank white pages.
>>>
>>> Do you still need the Postscript files for further inspection?
>>> Otherwise, i would assume it is indeed a bug in the pstoufr2cpca filter,
>>> as you already suggested.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Emilio
>>>
>>
>> Emilio,
>>
>> if you can display the PostScript files with gv or GsView, it is almost certainly a bug
>> in the pstoufr2cpca filter. 
>>
>> I’d suggest to get the latest available package containing this filter from your Linux
>> distributor or from Canon (you’ll need to specify what Linux you are using, I think).
>>
>> If nothing goes, I happen to have a source tarball from about Dec 2015 to Apr 2016.
>> But there is a lot of dependencies you need to obey when compiling that stuff,
>> which means the need to install a lot of development packages in advance.
>>
>> Helge
>>
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