From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Nov 6 03:18:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC2CC2F433 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 03:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98C34A2E for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2016 03:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id uA63IHqJ086528; Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:18:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Subject: Re: cups problems on 10.3 release both Epson and HP References: <2134837b-14ed-a35e-aec0-2490e268659d@dreamchaser.org> <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> To: Tijl Coosemans Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: <0d2306ad-8f96-c9bc-78ed-af0aea4daf50@dreamchaser.org> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:18:17 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:18:18 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:18:33 -0000 On 11/05/16 16:37, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 12:58:12 -0600 Gary Aitken 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.