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t4c

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 3

[solved] Printing via Cups fails

Hello Community,

software:
extra/poppler 0.20.0-1 [installed]
extra/cups 1.5.3-4 [installed]
extra/cups-filters 1.0.18-2 [installed]
aur/cups-xerox 2008.01.21-1 [installed]

for some days I have some bad problems with my two printers (a dell and a xerox workcentre)
If I try to print a testpage via cups it ends with:
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed" on both printers.
Same with printing via libre office, but the dell gives me a: "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
I already tried downgrading cups, cups-filters and poppler, no soloution, so any suggestions for me?

Regards
t4c

Last edited by t4c (2012-06-15 08:15:17)

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 726

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Re: [solved] Printing via Cups fails

Have a look at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30021
You may need to reinstall your printers and/or the drivers you use for them.
But there again it's only HP devices I am using at present ...

t4c

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] Printing via Cups fails

Thanks, already saw this bug report and tried reinstalling and new configuring.
Already downgraded as well -> no soloution

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,132

Re: [solved] Printing via Cups fails

Doesn't that bug concern an earlier version of cups with everything supposedly fixed in 1.5.3-3? The latest version is 1.5.3-4 and that seems to be introducing a lot of problems. (And I have deleted all my printers and reinstalled some of them - it got depressing, though, so I've not kept going.)

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dare023

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Registered: 2010-04-21

Posts: 64

Re: [solved] Printing via Cups fails

My hp p1005 just stopped working.I tried everything and got nothing.I was blacklisting hplip,as once hplip-plugin was missing from aur,and had small problems.
Now it looks like brick.
Could hplip-plugin be included in repos instead aur?

Edit : works again with new packages.

Last edited by dare023 (2012-06-14 19:56:34)

t4c

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] Printing via Cups fails

Installed extra/ghostscript now printing works again, never had these packages.
But ok, perhaps cups should depend on ghostscript.

d_logan

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Registered: 2010-04-21

Posts: 21

Re: [solved] Printing via Cups fails

I'm glad I ran across this post.  I had the same problem, new install of ArchBang and I couldn't get any printers to work.  I would get the filter failed error every time.  I installed ghostscript, restarted cups, and bam, printing away. Thanks.