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For the life of me, I cant get CUPS to print when I use HPLIP driver with my old HP DeskJet 845c.
If I use standard generic deskjet.ppd driver which comes with CUPS, it works fine. But if I try to use the one from HP, I get
"Filter failed"I tried removing and reinstalling CUPS and HPLIP. I tried all the tricks I found online. I tried the "chmod" trick from Arch CUPS wiki. I tried the udev rule. I tried debugging cups error log (which showed no error).
And nothing worked. I am completely out of ideas.
Is the generic driver inferior in any way to hplip dedicated driver?
Last edited by Lockheed (2015-01-13 10:14:11)
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I established, than the HPLIP driver can in fact print, but only if the CUPS Print Quality in default options is set to "Normal Color". What I need is "Normal Grayscale" but this one is what is causing "Filter failed" error.
Furthermore, "Draft Grayscale" prints, too, but I need normal quality grayscale.
It appears to be similar or the same issue as https://bugs.launchpad.net/archlinux/+s … ug/1396446
I also tried editing the ppd file as per this advice: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744338
but I got the same blank page result as described there.
This is cups error log
W [13/Jan/2015:11:09:05 +0100] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'DeskJet_845C-Gray..' already exists
W [13/Jan/2015:11:09:05 +0100] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'DeskJet_845C-RGB..' already existsbut as I said - RGB prints fine (as much as it can when there is no colour cassette present).
And this is hp-check result:
# hp-check -t
warning: python-dbus not installed.
Saving output in log file: /root/hp-check.log
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1
Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies are
installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball has the proper
dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).
Check types:
a. EXTERNALDEP - External Dependencies
b. GENERALDEP - General Dependencies (required both at compile and run time)
c. COMPILEDEP - Compile time Dependencies
d. [All are run-time checks]
PYEXT SCANCONF QUEUES PERMISSION
Status Types:
OK
MISSING - Missing Dependency or Permission or Plug-in
INCOMPAT - Incompatible dependency-version or Plugin-version
warning: arch distro is not found in AUTH_TYPES
warning: unknown- version is not supported. Using unknown-0 versions dependencies to verify and install...
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| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------
Kernel: 3.18.0-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Thu Dec 11 23:16:37 MST 2014 GNU/Linux
Host: malina
Proc: 3.18.0-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Thu Dec 11 23:16:37 MST 2014 GNU/Linux
Distribution: unknown
Bitness: 32 bit
-----------------------
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
-----------------------
HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.14.10
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
warning: HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is not supported for unknown distro version
Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.
[hplip]
version=3.14.10
[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.14.10
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.14.10
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp
bin=/usr/bin
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=yes
foomatic-drv-install=yes
foomatic-ppd-install=yes
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=yes
internal-tag=3.14.10
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=no
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no
Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
Plugins are not installed. Could not access file: No such file or directory
Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
warning: Could not access file: No such file or directory
<Package-name> <Package-Desc> <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status> <Comment>
--------------------------
| External Dependencies |
--------------------------
policykit Admin-Policy-framework OPTIONAL - 0.112 OK -
gs Ghostscript REQUIRED 7.05 9.15 OK -
network Network-wget OPTIONAL - 1.16.1 OK -
scanimage Shell-Scanning OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.24 OK -
avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - 0.6.31 OK -
dbus DBus REQUIRED - 1.8.12 OK -
cups CUPS REQUIRED 1.1 2.0.1 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is running'
error: xsane SANE-GUI OPTIONAL 0.9 - MISSING 'xsane needs to be installed'
-------------------------
| General Dependencies |
-------------------------
error: reportlab Python-PDF-Lib OPTIONAL 2.0 - MISSING 'reportlab needs to be installed'
libcrypto OpenSSL-Crypto-Lib REQUIRED - 1.0.1 OK -
pil Python-Image-Lib OPTIONAL - 1.1.7 OK -
error: pyqt4-dbus PyQt4-DBUS REQUIRED 4.0 - MISSING 'pyqt4-dbus needs to be installed'
libjpeg JPEG-Lib REQUIRED - - OK -
libpthread POSIX-Threads-Lib REQUIRED - 2.20 OK -
error: python-dbus Python-DBUS REQUIRED 0.80.0 - MISSING 'python-dbus needs to be installed'
python-devel Python-SDK REQUIRED 2.2 3.4.2 OK -
error: pyqt4 Python-Qt4 REQUIRED 4.0 - MISSING -
cups-devel CUPS-SDK REQUIRED - 2.0.1 OK -
sane-devel SANE-SDK REQUIRED - 1.0.24 OK -
libusb USB-Lib REQUIRED - 1.0 OK -
sane Scan-Lib REQUIRED - 1.0.24 OK -
cups-image CUPS-Image-Lib REQUIRED - 2.0.1 OK -
libnetsnmp-devel SNMP-Networking-SDK REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.7.2 OK -
python-xml Python-XML-Lib REQUIRED - 2.1.0 OK -
error: python-notify Desktop-notifications OPTIONAL - - MISSING 'python-notify needs to be installed'
------------------------------
| Compile Time Dependencies |
------------------------------
gcc gcc-Compiler REQUIRED - 4.9.2 OK -
libtool Build-tools REQUIRED - 2.4.4 OK -
make GNU-Build-tools REQUIRED 3.0 4.1 OK -
----------------------
| Python Extentions |
----------------------
cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -
pcardext PhotoCard-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -
hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -
-----------------------
| Scan Configuration |
-----------------------
hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK 'hpaio found in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'
scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -
------------------------------
| DISCOVERED SCANNER DEVICES |
------------------------------
No Scanner found.
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| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------
Device URI Model
---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
hp:/usb/DeskJet_845C?serial=CN1641P4NPSX HP DeskJet 845C
---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------
DeskJet_845C
------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/DeskJet_845C?serial=CN1641P4NPSX
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/DeskJet_845C.ppd
PPD Description: HP Deskjet 845c, hpcups 3.14.10
Printer ready to printr DeskJet_845C is idle. enabled since Tue Jan 13 11:09:54 2015
Communication status: Good
--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------
USB DeskJet_845C Required - - OK Node:'/dev/bus/usb/001/009' Perm:' root lp rw- rw- r--'
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| SUMMARY |
-----------
Missing Required Dependencies
-----------------------------
None
Missing Optional Dependencies
-----------------------------
None
Total Errors: 6
Total Warnings: 1
Done.Last edited by Lockheed (2015-01-13 10:53:13)
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