Where's the foomatic rip?

ShadowKyogre · 2009-05-24 23:19:41

Okay, the kde apps for printing are starting up and displaying normally. The system-config-printer-kde program said that I was missing foomatic-rip? I read that I should install the foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engines, and the foomatic-filters packages to fix this...but it didn't help. Anyone got a clue?

bernarcher · 2009-05-24 23:25:43

It should have been in extra/foomatic-filters:

bp:~$ pacman -Ql foomatic-filters | grep foomatic-rip
foomatic-filters /usr/bin/foomatic-rip
foomatic-filters /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
foomatic-filters /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic-rip
foomatic-filters /usr/lib/ppr/lib/foomatic-rip
foomatic-filters /usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.gz

Which printer do you use? It might be necessary to add vendor specific cups drivers. In case of e.g. HP you will need the foomatic-db-hpijs package as well.

Also have a look at the Cups wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-05-24 23:39:56)

skottish · 2009-05-25 01:13:39

For future reference, pkgfile from pkgtools rocks:

~ > pkgfile foomatic-rip
extra/foomatic-filters

ShadowKyogre · 2009-05-25 02:42:36

I have a Compaq IJ300 and the weird thing is I do have the driver installed.

Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2009-05-25 02:45:39)

ShadowKyogre · 2009-05-25 15:50:28

And I switched back to KDEMod3, but that didn't seem to fix the problem...what other printing related packages should I install?

ShadowKyogre · 2009-05-25 17:28:44

Well it isn't complaining about that anymore...it's just that it accepts the job, but never prints it. I'm thinking I might need to downgrade cups.

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#1 2009-05-24 23:19:41

Where's the foomatic rip?

#2 2009-05-24 23:25:43

Re: Where's the foomatic rip?

#3 2009-05-25 01:13:39

Re: Where's the foomatic rip?

#4 2009-05-25 02:42:36

Re: Where's the foomatic rip?

#5 2009-05-25 15:50:28

Re: Where's the foomatic rip?

#6 2009-05-25 17:28:44

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