From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 25 23:46:55 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 C61F4C55330 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mahan@mahan.org) Received: from ns.mahan.org (23-24-207-145-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [23.24.207.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4D51C04 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mahan@mahan.org) Received: from Cone-of-Silence.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.mahan.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id uAQ2pPLt085515; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mahan@mahan.org) Subject: Re: Having trouble printing to my HP OJ Pro 8600 all-in-one To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, FreeBSD Mailing List References: <31b7b3c7-326f-87e2-2986-f06280057c46@dreamchaser.org> From: Patrick Mahan Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:46:47 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <31b7b3c7-326f-87e2-2986-f06280057c46@dreamchaser.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:46:55 -0000 On 11/23/16 8:50 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 11/22/16 21:22, Patrick Mahan wrote: >> 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 so out of date.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. > > I had a similar problem with my HP Officejet Pro 8500. > > All you should need to install is: > print/gutenprint-cups > will force install of: > print/cups > print/cups-filters > print/ghostscript9-agpl-base > print/gutenprint-base > You do not want any of the other cups packages > Installing gutenprint-cups should force installation of all of the > following that I have installed except the two hplip packages, > which I don't think are needed: > > $ pkg info | egrep "cups|ghost|guten|hplip|fooma" > cups-2.2.1 Common UNIX Printing System > cups-filters-1.11.4 Additional backends, filters and other software for CUPS > foomatic-db-20161105 Database for integrating printer drivers with common spoolers > foomatic-db-engine-4.0.12_1,2 Foomatic database engine > foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers > ghostscript9-agpl-base-9.16_5 Ghostscript 9.x PostScript interpreter, base part > gimp-gutenprint-5.2.10_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver > gutenprint-5.2.10 The "meta-port" for GutenPrint > gutenprint-base-5.2.10_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver > gutenprint-cups-5.2.10_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver > gutenprint-foomatic-5.2.10_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver > hplip-3.16.10 Drivers and utilities for HP Printers and All-in-One devices > hplip-plugin-3.16.10 Binary plugin for some HP Printers and All-in-One devices > > Note that it's hplip-plugin, not plugins > However, I'm pretty sure hplip and hplip-plugin are not needed; > I meant to remove them but haven't done it yet. > > Look in /var/log/cups/error_log and tell us what you see. > Gary, Thanks for the info, I checked and see that I'm missing 'foomatic-db-engine-4.0.12_1,2', 'gimp-gutenprint-5.2.10_3' and 'gutenprint-foomatic-5.2.10_2'. I have added them to my installation: mahan@gypsy-new-~ 1 > pkg info | egrep "cups|ghost|guten|hplip|fooma" cups-2.2.1 Common UNIX Printing System cups-filters-1.11.4 Additional backends, filters and other software for CUPS cups-pdf-2.6.1_4 Virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files foomatic-db-20161105 Database for integrating printer drivers with common spoolers foomatic-db-engine-4.0.12_1,2 Foomatic database engine foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers ghostscript9-agpl-base-9.16_5 Ghostscript 9.x PostScript interpreter, base part ghostscript9-agpl-x11-9.16_2 Ghostscript 9.x PostScript interpreter, X11 support gimp-gutenprint-5.2.10_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver gnome-cups-manager-0.31_16,1 Administration tool for cups gutenprint-base-5.2.10_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-cups-5.2.10_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-foomatic-5.2.10_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver hplip-3.16.10 Drivers and utilities for HP Printers and All-in-One devices hplip-plugin-3.16.10 Binary plugin for some HP Printers and All-in-One devices libgnomecups-0.2.3_8,1 Support library for gnome cups administration I have removed and re-added it to my CUPS configuration: mahan@gypsy-new# cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v2.2.1 # Written by cupsd on 2016-11-25 14:20 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING UUID urn:uuid:40474287-5516-3bd7-40c5-7420204f6abe Info HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 All-in-One Location Downstairs in Patrick's office MakeModel HP Officejet Pro 8600, hpcups 3.14.4 DeviceURI socket://oj8600aio.mahan.org State Idle StateTime 1480112417 ConfigTime 1480112426 Type 36892 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer But when I attempt to print I get mahan@gypsy-new-~ 5> /usr/local/bin/lpr-cups -POJ8600AIO ~/.emacs /usr/local/bin/lpr-cups: Unsupported document-format "text/plain" But I see that in /usr/local/share/cups/mime/*.types I find: mahan@gypsy-new-~ 6 > grep "text/plain" /usr/local/share/cups/mime/*.types /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types:text/plain txt printable(0,1024) But I'm getting nothing but failures. Looking at /var/log/cups/error_log does show the following (snipped from the full log): D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] Send-Document ipp://localhost:631/printers/OJ8600AIO D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized: requesting-user-name="mahan" D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] [Job 238] Auto-typing file... D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] [Job 238] Request file type is text/plain. D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] Send-Document client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported document-format \"text/plain\". E [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] [Client 473] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/OJ8600AIO) from localhost D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] [Client 473] Content-Length: 166 D [25/Nov/2016:15:04:50 -0800] [Client 473] cupsdSendHeader: code=200, type="application/ipp", auth_type=0 So it is saying that this is not supported. The question is why? Thanks for helping! Patrick