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kalimeroo

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Registered: 2015-04-20

Posts: 7

Printer found but no pages are printed out

Hi,

I have Arch installed on a PC which is itself connected to a router (livebox play) via ethernet. I also have a printer (Brother DCP-9020CDW) connected to the same router via wireless connection.
I installed the CUPS package and the  Brother driver provided through the AUR. In order to set up the printer, I tried several configurations but none of them work :

- CUPS discovers two printers (DNSSD and LPD) but when I try to print a test page it returns 'unable to locate printer"

- manually adding a printer (ipp, socket,...) and specifying its IP address/port does not return any error (Print-Job successful-ok) but nothing is printed out

running the lpinfo -v gives :

lpinfo -v gives

network lpd
network http
network ipps
network socket
network ipp
network https
network dnssd://Brother%20DCP-9020CDW._ipp._tcp ... 055c3dcb2c
network lpd://BRW485AB6B8455B/BINARY_P1

I can ping my printer with its static IP adress.

Any ideas of where I should look at ?

kalimeroo

Member

Registered: 2015-04-20

Posts: 7

Re: Printer found but no pages are printed out

After a lot of reading I have some doubts. As my printer has a static IP address on my network, do I really need to install CUPS ?
Maybe I could only install libcups and either :

- give the IP address of the printer in client.conf (if the printer has an "integrated" printing server)

- give the router IP address in client.conf (it has a printing server) and redirect the port to the printer

Would that be more sensible ?