Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:18:17 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cups problems on 10.3 release both Epson and HP Message-ID: <0d2306ad-8f96-c9bc-78ed-af0aea4daf50@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <2134837b-14ed-a35e-aec0-2490e268659d@dreamchaser.org> <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 11/05/16 16:37, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 12:58:12 -0600 Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote:
>> Is anyone successfully using cups on 10.3?
>> I was using version 2.0.3 of cups on 9.2 ok,
>> but after installing 10.3 and cups 2.2.1 neither my Epson 3880 nor HP Officejet
>> Pro 8500 works.
>> Both of the printers are installed as networked printers,
>> using the socket://...:9100 interface.
>>
>> From the web interface to cups,
>> if I ask for the Epson to print its self-test page,
>> the printer activates and the green light above the power button starts blinking,
>> and never quits blinking -- it's as if the printer is perpetually busy. I have
>> to turn it off and on to reset it.
>> For the HP, I get a page that says something to the effect that if you can read
>> this page you are using the wrong driver.
>>
>> I tried all of the epson 3880 drivers listed in the cups drop-down, plus
>> the 4600 one; there was no driver for the officejet pro 8500 listed so I
>> tried using a different one (which had worked under cups 2.0.3 on 9.2) and
>> also the one in the gutenprint 5.2.10 installation.
>>
>> ideas?
>
> Did you install print/cups-filters?
I had other foomatic filters installed which conflicted; just uninstalled
that stuff and installed print/cups-filters, with no change in behavior.
If it's of any help, the HP prints out:
%!
userdict dup(\004)cvn{}put (\004\004)cvn{}put
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%% If you can read this, you are using the wrong driver for your printer. %%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Epson still wakes up and sits there waiting for something to finish being sent,
I think.
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