Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:22:13 -0800 From: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Having trouble printing to my HP OJ Pro 8600 all-in-one Message-ID: <b63c46fd-b586-bab9-f053-13fbc2e515cc@mahan.org>
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All,
System info:
CPU: Intel I7 w/8 cpus @ 3.20 GHz
MEM: 12 Gbytes
HDD: 1 TB Seagate Barracuda (FreeBSD is on a 500G partition)
OS: FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p21
I just update my binary packages (after much much pain) since they were
so out of date. One of the items that seemed to drastically was CUPS.
I had CUPS-2.0.1 and now have CUPS-2.2.1, but it seems I have lost all
printing ability. I re-installed all available cups packages (except client,
can't see where that exists) along with gutenprint and hplip. I see on
the ports page that there a secondary package called hplip-plugins but
pkg will not install it as it says it cannot find any package matching
that name.
Cups sees the printer, it seems up, but when I attempt to print a test
page, I get the following error:
Unable to print test page:
Unsupported format "text/plain".
Looking in /usr/local/etc/cups and I don't see any definition for
"text/plain". Also, the cups filter in the .ppd for the printer
is set to "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 hpcups", but I can find
no definition of vnd.cups-raster nor hpcups.
Tried googling and most of the solutions are targeted for Linux
platforms and are packages that I no longer see in the ports tree.
Any pointers, suggestions, how to's are appreciated. This has been
the main print server in my office and a couple of colleagues with
Apple devices (iPads, iPhones and Macbooks) depend on it for printing.
Thanks,
Patrick
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