[SOLVED]Problems with HP Multi-function printer to work since Cups 1.4

aliasbody · 2012-09-06 03:07:19

Hello Everyone,

I have a huge problem that is bothering me since a long time. I started using Arch Linux 2 years ago (almost), and since then I never had a single problem. Then Cups 1.4 came along and problems start to appear, my HP PSC 1200 Series wasn't recognize anymore, after a long research and... a lots of luck I managed to get my printer working (don't know how...).

With the time passing, 1.5 was out, and guess what ? Cups stopped finding my printer again, so I started searching, blacklisting things, I finished buy going to Ubuntu again (seeing that it was using the same version of Cups but working), and after a few weeks of "trying a lot of stuff that I didn't understand well", the printer started to work by itself... and I was happy.

Cups 1.6 is out and once again my printer is not detected.... And it starts to get me out of me.... So I tried and tried but nothing.... I fallowed the Wiki on my old installation but nothing to do... then I installed Arch on my new laptop and nothing to do... I finally managed to make it work on my old installation (I was trying everything then if it didn't work I removed what I've done... so... I really don't understand why it works now...). But since I don't know what I did it is impossible to me to understand how to do it again..

I can solve any problem that my computer with Arch can have at any moment (and they are very rare or even inexistent)... but this one... seriously this makes me thinking if creating an alternative to cups isn't a bad idea at all just to get ride of this annoying problems.

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=10
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:psc 1200 series;CMD:LDL,MLC,PML,DYN;CLS:PRINTER;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;SN:CN3CRF513D5H;S:0380008000820000002c148000bc2500041; Device URI: usb://HP/psc%201200%20series?serial=CN3CRF513D5H&interface=1
direct usb://HP/psc%201200%20series?serial=CN3CRF513D5H&interface=1 "HP psc 1200 series" "HP psc 1200 series" "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:psc 1200 series;CMD:LDL,MLC,PML,DYN;CLS:PRINTER;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;SN:CN3CRF513D5H;S:0380008000820000002c148000bc2500041;" ""

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp
direct hp:/usb/psc_1200_series?serial=CN3CRF513D5H "HP psc 1200 series" "HP psc 1200 series USB CN3CRF513D5H HPLIP" "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:psc 1200 series;CLS:PRINTER;DES:psc 1200 series;SN:CN3CRF513D5H;"

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ lsmod | grep usblp
usblp                  11186  0 
usbcore               147434  4 usblp,uhci_hcd,uvcvideo,ehci_hcd

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ lsusb
Bus 006 Device 004: ID 03f0:2f11 Hewlett-Packard PSC 1200
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 04f2:b073 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/006/004 
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root lp 189, 643 Set  6 04:08 /dev/bus/usb/006/004

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ sudo pacman -Qs cups
[sudo] password for aliasbody: 
local/cups 1.6.1-6
    The CUPS Printing System - daemon package
local/cups-filters 1.0.23-1
    OpenPrinting CUPS Filters
local/cups-pdf 2.6.1-1
    PDF printer for cups
local/cups-pk-helper 0.2.2-1
    A helper that makes system-config-printer use PolicyKit
local/libcups 1.6.1-6
    The CUPS Printing System - client libraries and headers
local/pycups 1.9.62-1
    Python CUPS Bindings
local/system-config-printer-common 1.3.10-1
    Pygtk CUPS Configuration

[aliasbody@BodyMSI ~]$ sudo pacman -Qs hp
local/foomatic-db 1:4.0.17_20120712-1
    Foomatic - The collected knowledge about printers, drivers, and driver options in XML files, used by
    foomatic-db-engine to generate PPD files.
local/hplip 3.12.6-3
    Drivers for HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, Photosmart, Business Inkjet and some LaserJet

But if anyone can help me I would be very thankfull !

Thanks in Advance,
Luis Da Costa

Last edited by aliasbody (2012-09-16 18:09:06)

aliasbody · 2012-09-16 18:08:25

Solved, just had to change the hostname order in /etc/hosts (I need to correct this on the arch wiki) :

Before :

127.0.0.1	        localhost.localdomain	    localhost    BodyArch-PC
::1			localhost.localdomain	    localhost    BodyArch-PC

After :

127.0.0.1	        localhost.localdomain    BodyArch-PC	    localhost
::1			localhost.localdomain    BodyArch-PC	    localhost

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#1 2012-09-06 03:07:19

[SOLVED]Problems with HP Multi-function printer to work since Cups 1.4

#2 2012-09-16 18:08:25

Re: [SOLVED]Problems with HP Multi-function printer to work since Cups 1.4

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