[solved] Welcome and cups 1.2 / Canon i560 problem

Giniu · 2007-04-02 15:43:52

first of all hi to all

that's my second day on Arch and I'm slowly getting all set how I want it to be (E17+some other stuff)... very nice distro - I especially like the setup process with total freedom re configuration - also it was nice to see BSD-like scripts after few years on Slackware - actually I added this as second distro because I wanted to try GCC4+GlibC2.5+some_other_warm_stuff while keeping working sys

Now to details about problem...

my printer Canon i560 refuses to work... I used usual configuration and setup way exactly as I had it noted when I was building Slack - as I write whole install process on piece of paper to see if I didn't do something wrong... it was quite similar to the one from gentoo wiki... so in short it was working there, and won't work here... It was detected, filter was loaded, it pass it to usb, then finish job as completed, but printer don't even move...

only what was in cups error_log is:

I [02/Apr/2007:17:28:40 +0200] Job 11 queued on "Canon_i560_USB_1" by "root".
I [02/Apr/2007:17:28:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11075) for job 11.
I [02/Apr/2007:17:28:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonbj (PID 11076) for job 11.
I [02/Apr/2007:17:28:40 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 11077) for job 11.

and that's all... it's not huge problem as I just used BJC7000 driver and it works (for both printers status and uri are same, permissions are set), but I remember printer had better quality (especially when printing photos) using right driver...

any ideas or hints how to debug this issue to get more information what could went wrong?

thanks in advance,
Giniu.

==

Update to Gutenprint 5.1.1 and using new driver from it made my printer work like a charm, if anyone have problem with any Canon ixxx printer with new cups, this is way to go I think

Last edited by Giniu (2007-05-31 20:31:51)

Giniu · 2007-04-06 10:55:19

I think that this can be marked partially solved... I found others with same problem and it is related to cups as I found out... this is what I found:

Cool, mine is working now, too! All I had to do is downgrade my CUPS-System
from 1.1.20 (sarge) to 1.1.14 (woody). Now it uses cupsys-pstoraster instead of
gs-eps. The Canon-drivers were developped for Red-Hat 9 which had the older
CUPS installed.

after restart the computer, now when i use "usb://Canon/iP1000" and jobs are
showing finished after click on print (but nothing happen in printer)
but when useing "canon_usb:///dev/usb/lp0"
it's showing error the same error.

- the error mentioned there is: "Unable to open USB port device file: No such file or directory"

but /dev/usb/lp0 exists and printer is accessible from there (it acts on sending data to it)

does anyone have some other solution than downgrading cups to 1.1.14?

thanks in advance for any help

Giniu · 2007-04-11 22:02:38

I set my loglevel to debug and after huge part of job preparation that went ok, I got this:

D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] PID 15507 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops) exited with no errors.
E [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] PID 15509 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/canon_usb) stopped with status 1!
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Page = 595x842; 10,14 to 586,833
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] slow_collate=0, slow_duplex=0, slow_order=0
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Before copy_comments - %!PS-Adobe-3.0
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %!PS-Adobe-3.0
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%Pages: 1
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%LanguageLevel: 1
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset testprint/1.2
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Times-Roman
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%Creator: Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%CreationDate: D:20070220113000+0500
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%Title: Test Page
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] %%EndComments
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Before copy_prolog - %%BeginProlog
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Before copy_setup - %%Page: 1 1
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Before page loop - %%Page: 1 1
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Copying page 1...
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] pagew = 576.0, pagel = 819.2
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] bboxw = 595, bboxl = 842
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] PageLeft = 9.6, PageRight = 585.6
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] PageTop = 833.4, PageBottom = 14.2
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] PageWidth = 595.0, PageLength = 842.0
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Wrote 1 pages...
E [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] [Job 38] Unable to open USB port device file: No such file or directory
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [11/Apr/2007:23:49:38 +0200] PID 15506 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) exited with no errors.

it's only bit more verbose, does it ring bell for anyone?... also in GutenPrint 5.0.1-rc1 release notes I found:

The support for these printers is under development, and there
are known issues with these printers. Please check with the
mailing list (gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) if you
have any questions.
---
Canon i560

anyone know how to enable this from gutenprint? Does it need rebuild with some configure option to get them?

thanks in advance,
Giniu.

Arch Linux

#1 2007-04-02 15:43:52

[solved] Welcome and cups 1.2 / Canon i560 problem

#2 2007-04-06 10:55:19

Re: [solved] Welcome and cups 1.2 / Canon i560 problem

#3 2007-04-11 22:02:38

Re: [solved] Welcome and cups 1.2 / Canon i560 problem

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