Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:15:58 -0700 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: <e6ac5133-613a-1546-39bc-56030521640e@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20161106121440.221ba2e8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <2134837b-14ed-a35e-aec0-2490e268659d@dreamchaser.org> <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <0d2306ad-8f96-c9bc-78ed-af0aea4daf50@dreamchaser.org> <20161106121440.221ba2e8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 11/06/16 04:14, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:18:17 -0600 Gary Aitken
> <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Did you restart cupsd after installing cups-filters: service cupsd
> restart
Yes
> In /usr/local/etc/cups are there any differences between
> cups-files.conf and cups-files.conf.sample, cupsd.conf and
> cupsd.conf.sample or snmp.conf and snmp.conf.sample? It's best to
> stop cupsd before making any changes to these files: service cupsd
> stop
no, they haven't been tweaked
> For the HP printer there's official support in print/hplip, but the
> generic PCL driver included with CUPS probably works too.
I have also installed print/hplip and print/hplip-plugin and restarted
cupsd.
/var/log/cups/error_log contains the following when I try to print to the
HP:
HP_Officejet_Pro_8500_A909g: File \"/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip-hplip\" not available: No such file or directory
That message also shows up in the cups web interface in the Status column
for the HP printer; the Epson printer says "Idle"
In /usr/local/libexec/cups/filters there is a foomatic-rip but no
foomatic-rip-hplip. Where is that supposed to come from? I would have
guessed print/hplip, but I have that installed. Is it necessary to clean
out everything somehow and reinstall cups and the other related ports all
at once in order to get the correct supporting files?
> For the Epson printer you'll probably need print/gutenprint-cups.
I added that as well and it still hangs.
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