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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:07:12 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br>
To:        Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB printer problem [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <200901061907.12439.mlobo@digiart.art.br>

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On Tuesday 06 January 2009 10:57:27 you wrote:
> Your PPD is probably wrong ...
>
> Accorfing to:
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_d1500_series.ht
>ml
>
> Your printer is fully supported. But the right PPD seem to be: DJ3320
>
> Get into the cups web interface, remove your printer and set a new one with
> the right values.
>
> Use this as your uri: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?serial=BR8AEFN0N0058V
> Use this as your PPD: DJ3320
>
> Let's how that goes ;)
>
> Please Mario, don't leave alone ! I just _want_ to see you got your printer
> up and runnig :)
> So do not hesitate in  getting bac to me if you run into a wen problem.
> We _will_ sort it out :)
>
> Worst case scenario, your gonna have to wait until FreeBSD port catches up
> with the lates hplip release....
>
> Best regards

mario wrote:
>
> I replaced the ppd and still no go:
>
> Description: HP Deskjet D1500 series
> Location: Local Printer
> Printer Driver: HP DeskJet 3320 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
> Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?serial=BR8AEFN0N0058V
>
>
> All I get is:
>
> "/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
>
> and again nothing gets printed.

IT WORKED !!

I finalinally found what was wrong !.

the error i was getting was:

 Ghostscript 8.63: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"

then I found this bug report for ghostscript:

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From-To:	freebsd-ports-bugs->doceng
By:	pav
When:	Wed Nov 12 16:19:39 UTC 2008
Why:	Assign to maintainer

Reply via E-mail
From:	Peter Orlowski <petero@itp.physik.tu-berlin.de>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:41:30 +0100

This seems to be related to the pthread lib. Setting

STDLIBS=-lm
SYNC=nosync

in work/ghostscript8.63/src/Makefile.in fixes the error.
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That did it. The printer now works perfectly !

Thanks Gonzalo for your ever-lasting good will, patience and support !
God bless you !
-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE)



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