Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 12:14:40 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cups problems on 10.3 release both Epson and HP Message-ID: <20161106121440.221ba2e8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <0d2306ad-8f96-c9bc-78ed-af0aea4daf50@dreamchaser.org> References: <2134837b-14ed-a35e-aec0-2490e268659d@dreamchaser.org> <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <0d2306ad-8f96-c9bc-78ed-af0aea4daf50@dreamchaser.org>
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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
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
For the HP printer there's official support in print/hplip, but the generic
PCL driver included with CUPS probably works too.
For the Epson printer you'll probably need print/gutenprint-cups.
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