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SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

[solved] USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

HI,

my USB Printer does not work. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2200
I use CUPS with the TurboPrint drivers. If I trie to print a testpage I get this message but nothing happens

USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

The device (URI) in CUPS and turboprint is

usb://Canon/iP2200

I know that the printer works, cause a few months ago it worked fine.
I installed latest CUPS and turboprint, but same error.

lsusb

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 04a9:109f Canon, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046a:000c Cherry GmbH 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

dmesg

usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x109F
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver

any ideas?

Last edited by SiD (2007-03-04 22:30:25)

_alexmyself

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From: france

Registered: 2005-09-18

Posts: 90

Re: [solved] USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

uses canon and turboprint to and i have to plug usb after everything has boot

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: [solved] USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

plugging in the printer after everything has booted does not work for me.
any other ideas?

p.s.
I like Arch, but this problem forces me to mount my winXP partition, copy the files to print to it, and boot WinXP to print. And don't want the needed Applicatios (e.g. Office) on my Windows-Installation, cause I use it only as a Harddisk-Recording-System and some other little music apps (e.g. Power Tab Editor).

Last edited by SiD (2007-03-02 08:14:42)

_alexmyself

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From: france

Registered: 2005-09-18

Posts: 90

Re: [solved] USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

cups has a web interface: http://localhost:631
maybe could help you..

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: [solved] USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

yes, I know, and played with the settings, but the printer won't print anything.

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: [solved] USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...

I just restored my Gentoo-Backup and the printer works with TurboPrint 1.95-2 and CUPS 1.2.8
Any ideas why in Arch the printer doesn't work?

edit:
Maybe the kernel? In Gentoo it's a 2.6.19 kernel...

edit:
finaly it woks!
the problem was that the package "ghostscript" wasn't installed

Last edited by SiD (2007-03-04 22:29:48)