[cups] "Filter failed"

Brendan Dailey bdailey at umich.edu
Mon Mar 27 06:25:03 PDT 2017


Hi Rodolfo -

I saw this recently with some Xerox print drivers on my Mac. I don't know
where the Samsung filters will live on a Debian box, but if you check your
CUPS error log (/var/log/cups/error_log, usually), you can see which filter
file is getting invoked and why it's failing. For me, it ended up being a
permissions issue (filter had permissions "600", so it wasn't executable).

-Brendan

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> My operating system is Debian GNU/Linux, and my printer a Samsung
> ML-1915.  I
> installed cups but the printer does not respond.  Print jobs are stopped
> because of "Filter failed" issue.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
>
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Brendan Dailey
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Print Operations & Development Specialist
University of Michigan
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