Mavericks Internet connected printer filter failed - where

Question

Help!!
Until Mavericks I printed from my macbook pro laptop to a HP1100c (parallel-port interface) internet connected on my old generic laptop running Ubuntu
Been doing this since Leopard and worked through OS updates since then without any problems. Now on Mavericks I get "Filter failed"
I can't remember exactly how it runs - I know at one point I was using Gutenberg and I have Gutenprint 5.2 installed in /usr/share and these libs
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.1.1.1.dylib
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.1.dylib
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.2.0.3.dylib
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.a
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.la
/usr/libexec/cups/driver/gutenprint.5.2
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2
but I also have some guten stuff under macports. I long since stopped maintaining macports and it would be a major effort for me to delve into updating it.
Anyone point me in a good direction - like everyone I need a quick fix that doesn't involve delving into how to update macports (is it even running that subsystem - I don't know now). Sure I can deal with these low level things but I have a life too - I just want it to work - understanding macports etc. again is dead time.
Come to that I lost track of how to configure printing on  the ubuntu half of this too (though that didn't change).  It would help enormously if I knew where it was failing - what does "Filter failed" mean. It might mean some shell script somewhere failing - if so where, what subsystem ?
andy

Answer 1

Have you tried using GutenPrint 5.2.9?
Hope this helps.