[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

[James Sumners]

That is just the package you need. Install it and then go to the printing
manager under "Preferences" and change the printing method to "Cups". I am
fairly sure this is the root of your problems because I just set up woody on my
grandfather's machine last weekend and his BJC-6000 was not printing. It would
only feed the paper in to the ink jets and nothing else until I installed
kdelibs3-cups.

On 15 Nov 2003 13:54:00 -0500
Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:

> Here's what I get:
> 
> 	user at micron:~$ apt-cache search kde cups
> 	kdelibs3-cups - KDE print system (CUPS support)
> 
> Does that mean it's installed?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 13:26, James Sumners wrote:
> > Install the KDE  Cups library. For KDE to properly talk with your Cups
> > printer it needs it.
> > 
> > `apt-cache search kde cups | less`
> > 
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:49:37 +0000
> > hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > 
> > > The simple act of getting a Canon BJC-4300 printer workign in Debian Woody
> > > has me tied up in knots.
> > > 
> > > I should say from the outset that I got an Epson Color Stylus IIs working
> > > on the same machine but its alignment was so bad that I can't go forward
> > > with it(escputil was a dead end, BTW).
> > > 
> > > The CUPS admin Web app acts like the printer is there and working, BTW, I
> > > went to linuxprinting.org and went thru the procedure for downloading and
> > > installing the gimp-print ppd file as it recommended.  I re-added the
> > > printer and all appears to have gone as expected but still there's no
> > > printer movement.
> > > 
> > > CUPS test page acts like its' working but no movement.  "lpr /etc/fstab"
> > > acts like it works; no movement (CPU grinds, job appears in list,
> > > completes and shuffles off to completed jobs list).  Printing from an app
> > > like kword gives me an error that reads:
> > > 
> > > /usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' /root/.kde/tmp-micron/kdeprint_ZlrRvBg:
> > > execution failed with message:  lpr:  unable to print file: 
> > > client-error-not-found
> > > 
> > > In watching (via tail -f) /var/log/cups/error_log, jobs appear to run
> > > normally and exit with status 1 when printing test page or "lpr
> > > /etc/fstab", but when i print from kword it also says after that
> > > "print_job:  resource name'/printers/lp' no good!"
> > > 
> > > Any hope here?
> > > 
> > > - Jeff
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