[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

[James Sumners]

Is it a USB or Parallel printer? If the latter then my grandfather's machine was
listing two types of Canon Parallel printer ports on the same port and I had to
choose the second one.

On 15 Nov 2003 17:11:46 -0500
Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:

> James -
> 
> That got rid of the error when printing from kword but the printer still
> doesn't move or make a sound.  Test pages and lpr jobs have no effect,
> but the jobs end as normal.  Time to suspect a bad printer?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:29, James Sumners wrote:
> > 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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