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kandrews

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Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 119

CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

Hi I am unable to get my printer to print anything. The CUPS administration program says my printer has jobs pending to print, but they wont. There doesn't seem to be a button in there to force it to print. dmesg's last line indicated that the printer was detected by the computer. I have had usblp in my modules list for some time and hplip is before CUPS. The printer name has: "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" after it. There has to be something obvious I am missing, but I don't know what it could be. I don't have much experience with dealing with CUPS.

Thanks for any advice you can give to help me troubleshoot this issue!

Last edited by kandrews (2007-07-18 18:38:44)

YscO

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 52

Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

Can you post your logs? (/var/log/cups)

kandrews

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Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 119

Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

http://pastebin.com/m23363f99 <-- /var/log/cups
http://pastebin.com/m7cf3feaa <-- everything that went in with cat * > ~/home/andrewkl/log.txt

kandrews

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Registered: 2007-04-21

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Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

*bump*

peabrain

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Registered: 2005-08-08

Posts: 42

Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

How about this? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HPLIP#Error_.22f … _failed.22

Though Arch's default package seems to be the ESP version.

I had a similar problem once, but that's over a year ago, so I'm having trouble remembering. It had something to do with my old Canon Laser printer. I remember I had to fetch a working ppd file from http://www.cups.org/ppd.php or from http://openprinting.org/driver_list.cgi . And I did reinstall Ghostscript, though I can't remember what version I had before the reinstallation.

Last edited by peabrain (2007-07-18 11:15:17)

akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

I've had same problem with foomatic-rip.

Try debug mode to allow more info.

- Change 'LogLevel info' to 'LogLevel debug' in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
- run '/etc/rc.d/cups restart' to restart cups.

Try print and see in error log what makes foomatic stop.

In my case it was the fact that it didn't find strict.pm(a module in perl). This far I've solved it by reinstalling perl(pacman -S perl), but I'm not done searching yet because in at least one instance the error with foomatic have returned despite reinstalling perl.

kandrews

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Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 119

Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

Thanks everyone for the help!

akejo: Your problem was my problem. Reinstalling perl worked for me as well.

akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: CUPS printer not printing but is recognised; [SOLVED]

Glad it worked out.