[solved] Printing via Cups fails

Hello Community,
software:
extra/poppler 0.20.0-1 [installed]
extra/cups 1.5.3-4 [installed]
extra/cups-filters 1.0.18-2 [installed]
aur/cups-xerox 2008.01.21-1 [installed]
for some days I have some bad problems with my two printers (a dell and a xerox workcentre)
If I try to print a testpage via cups it ends with:
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed" on both printers.
Same with printing via libre office, but the dell gives me a: "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
I already tried downgrading cups, cups-filters and poppler, no soloution, so any suggestions for me?
Regards
t4c
Last edited by t4c (2012-06-15 08:15:17)

My hp p1005 just stopped working.I tried everything and got nothing.I was blacklisting hplip,as once hplip-plugin was missing from aur,and had small problems.
Now it looks like brick.
Could hplip-plugin be included in repos instead aur?
Edit : works again with new packages.
Last edited by dare023 (2012-06-14 19:56:34)

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I [18/Dec/2012:08:27:57 +0000] [Job 167] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 7897)
I [18/Dec/2012:08:27:57 +0000] [Job 167] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/fprint (PID 7898)
So it seems to be identifying the files correctly as postscript, and then tries to conver it to a pdf using its pstopdf filter, then proceeds to run pdftopdf for some reason, filter it through foomatic-rip and then through the fprint filter (mine).
I have no idea why it needs to go through all those filters first, however it fails early,at the pstopdf step:
pstopdf 6 args: 167 andrew notes.ps 1 nocollate Duplex=None InputSlot=Default number-up=1 outputorder=normal PageSize=A4 position=center Resolution=600x600dpi nowrap job-uuid=urn:uuid:08c52a0f-73f7-3ac7-7632-7ee1e4465007 job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1355819277 time-at-processing=1355819277 /var/spool/cups/d00167-001
PID 7895 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf) stopped with status 1.
I looked at /var/spool/cups/d00167-001 and it is a faithful copy of the postscript file, but running the command from the command line produces:
# /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf 167 andrew notes.ps 1 nocollate Duplex=None InputSlot=Default number-up=1 outputorder=normal PageSize=A4 position=center Resolution=600x600dpi nowrap job-uuid=urn:uuid:08c52a0f-73f7-3ac7-7632-7ee1e4465007 job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1355819277 time-at-processing=1355819277 /var/spool/cups/d00167-001
DEBUG: pstopdf 18 args: 167 andrew notes.ps 1 nocollate Duplex=None InputSlot=Default number-up=1 outputorder=normal PageSize=A4 position=center Resolution=600x600dpi nowrap job-uuid=urn:uuid:08c52a0f-73f7-3ac7-7632-7ee1e4465007 job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1355819277 time-at-processing=1355819277 /var/spool/cups/d00167-001
DEBUG: PPD:
ERROR: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf job-id user title copies options [file]
Running the command without the options produces a PDF file on stdout.
The questions seem to be, why does CUPS try to convert a Postscript file to a PDF and then back to Postscript via foomatic-rip, and why does that conversion fail for me?
Incidentally I am using one of the Generic Postscript PPD files
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Require user @SYSTEM
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I'm running Arch Linux ARM on my Seagate DockStar, a small ARM-based "plug computer" that I use as a home server. My printer is the HP Deskjet F4480, which is part of the HP Deskjet F4400 series.
I previously had CUPS set up to share my printer with my home network, using hplip for the printer driver. I never upgraded CUPS or hplip because those versions worked fine, and I didn't want to break anything avoid breaking anything. The versions that I was using had to have been at least one to two years old.
Everything was working very smoothly... until a few days ago. The drive I was running Arch Linux ARM on became corrupt, so I had to install a fresh copy of the operating system. That meant losing all of the working versions and configuration files each application I had installed, including CUPS. I thought I had a backup image of the drive, but it didn't work when I tried to restore it. (Yes, it was stupid of me not to test my backup.)
Setting up CUPS was one of the first things that I wanted to do after reinstalling, since my family depends on the network printing functionality almost daily. Unfortunately, I could not get CUPS to work with my printer correctly. It wouldn't be able to display a list of drivers, HP's setup utility encountered an error adding it, and it threw various errors when I tried to print test pages. I ended up reading hundreds of forum posts, wiki articles, and CUPS/hplip tutorials to try to figure out how to properly set it up. I ended up spending a total of nearly ten hours trying to get the printer to print with CUPS, and it's still not working after all that work.
I'm going to explain in this post some of the many things that I've tried so far. I just removed all of the printing packages from my system and any extra files that were left behind. I'm now going to be installing all of the packages again and documenting everything that I have been trying to do to get it to work. I'll try to include exact error messages and logs where necessary.
1. I first found this article on the Arch Linux ARM website on how to set up a CUPS printer. I didn't really want to use webmin, but I did it anyway so that I could follow the guide. I installed all the packages mentioned except for cups-pdf, since I didn't need print to PDF support. Everything installed smoothly, and I configured CUPS and webmin to allow access to other computers on the network. I started to notice problems in the instructions - /etc/rc.d/cups was actually /etc/rc.d/cupsd, /etc/printers.conf was actually /etc/cups/printers.conf, and webmin didn't actually add anything to the printers.conf file. I uninstalled webmin at this point because I didn't need it, and I decided I wasn't going to follow that guide with incorrect information.
2. I then tried to set up the printer on my own using the CUPS web interface listening on port 631. I clicked the Add Printer button and it switched me to the HTTPS web interface. I then logged into the root account and was presented with the list of printers. My printer was listed as "HP Deskjet F4400 series (HP Deskjet F4400 series)", so I selected it and continued. I saw a list of printer models (PPD files) ending in CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9. There was no entry for my printer, so I tried the "HP DeskJet Series (en)" one. I set the default options and chose Maintenaince->Print test page. I then got a ridiculously simple error: "Unable to print test page: No such file or directory". How do I even know what file or directory it's referencing? I read online that it may be because I'm not in the lp group, but root is indeed in there. I saw in the error log "Avahi client failed: -26". I started dbus and avahi-daemon just in case, but I still got that silly error. I restarted cups and the same error message occured.
3. I researched online that pretty much the only way for my printer to have a driver would be to install hplip. Before installing hplip, I uninstalled CUPS, leaving cupsd.conf but deleting printers.conf. Then I installed CUPS and hplip together, with hplip requiring foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, and foomatic-filters. Everything seemed to install correctly. I started CUPS again and then ran hp-setup -i to try to install my printer. I selected USB and it found my printer, hp:/usb/Deskjet_F4400_series?serial=[printer serial number here]. I entered a simple name and then was told that no PPD file was found for the printer but that I could specify one manually. There were none I could find online; everywhere it just said to install hplip. I used the find command to find "f4400" and finally found 2 compressed PPDs located at /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-deskjet_f4400_series-hpijs.ppd.gz and /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-deskjet_f4400_series.ppd.gz. I gunzipped both of them and pointed hpsetup to the hpijs one, knowing that I was using the hpijs one when it was working before. It told me "Description for the file: HP Deskjet f4400 Series hpijs, 3.12.6". Hooray! I selected to use it, but then setup failed: "error: Printer queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again." Ugh!
4. I restarted CUPS and went into the hp-setup process again. It gave me the same printer queue setup failed error. I don't know if these entries in the CUPS error log are related or not, but these errors relating to foomatic showed up. I restarted CUPS again and this time used the non-hpijs file with hp-setup. This one was called "Description for the file: HP Deskjet f4400 Series, hpcups 3.12.6". It failed again with the same error and the same entries in the error log. I found lots of posts online about this error, but none seemed to have a solution that would work for me. Now I tried running hp-setup in debug mode with -g. Here is what it said before the error. I then tried to Google "debug: addPrinter() returned (0, Unable to connect to CUPS server)". I saw on an Arch bug report to install dbus-python and python2-gobject, as well as create a symlink for /usr/bin/python2 to /usr/bin/python. It didn't work - same error.
5. I then tried to add the printer to CUPS via its web interface. Now there were two listed, HP Deskjet F4400 series (HP Deskjet F4400 series) and HP Deskjet F4400 series USB [printer serial number here] HPLIP (HP Deskjet F4400 series). So, hplip added the second one. I tried both of them, but after clicking Continue the page started to hang. I got another stupid, undescriptive error. "Unable to get list of printer drivers: Success". I saw the same foomatic errors in the error log as before. I then started reading the ArchWiki page on CUPS, located here. I tried the blacklisting usblp. I tried changing the permissions on the device node, although this starts to become ridiculous that it is even required to do that. Nothing was working; the printer installation still didn't work with hp-setup or with CUPS. Then, I found what I was looking for: the exact error I had on the wiki page! It said for "Unable to get list of printer drivers" you should "Try to remove Foomatic drivers." WTF? Foomatic is required for hplip, and hplip is required for my printer. I can't do that. Forum posts say to try that or do the permissions or usblp thing. Nothing is working.
6. I tried various other things to get it to work, even though I knew they probably wouldn't make it any different. I copied the PPDs from hplip to another folder and uninstalled hplip and foomatic. I then added them to /usr/share/cups/model and CUPS successfully found them and set up the printer. I reinstalled hplip and foomatic since they're needed for those PPDs to function, and I tried printing a test page. It failed. I tried using the CUPS web interface to modify the printer driver; nope, that wasn't going to happen: "Unable to get list of printer drivers: Success".
That concludes the list of some of the things that I have tried so far. I really want to get this printer working, but right now I am really fed up with CUPS and hplip. It's things like this that make me hesitant to recommend Linux to anyone else. So much manual configuration and tinkering the inner workings of things is required to do tasks that would be quite simple on Windows. For example, I can plug this printer into my Windows 7 machine right now, wait for the driver to automatically be installed and configured, and have a test page in my hands less than a minute after I first plugged in the USB cable. I can share the printer with any other Windows machine on the network by checking a single checkbox.
But back to my problem with getting the printer to work on my DockStar. I just uninstalled all of CUPS, hplip, and foomatic again and removed all of their files. I can walk through things to try that you guys post and then give you full logs of everything - just give me exactly what to do and install and the exact order to do it all in. I just don't know what to do at this point and am so frustrated with this that I'm about to give up.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this printer working? I know this was a very long post, but I just wanted to explain everything that I've tried and how nothing worked. I really hope that we can figure this out so that I'll be able to print, and maybe it'll solve a few other people's problems with their printers, too. Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for the help.

Had similar issue with my HP Deskjet F4500C All in one printer, here's what I did:
make sure these packages are installed or install them
pacman -S cups cups-pdf hplip pyqt3 python2-pyqt
pacman -S system-config-printer-gnome
rc.d cups start
To add device and install hp driver:
1. Run ‘hp-setup’ as root.
2. Click ‘Show Advanced Options’ button and check-enable ‘Manual Discovery’.
3. Enter IP address 192.168.59.63 in the ‘…device ID…’ entry and click ‘Next’ to install driver.
run system-config-printer as root, to add printer
# system-config-printer
click “Add”， Select Device -> Network Printer -> input the IP address of the printer such as “192.168.1.3″, click “Find” -> “Process”
you should be ok from here, if not some further steps:
If you encounter the following error:
File “/usr/share/system-config-printer/newprinter.py”, line 1531, in getNetworkPrinterMakeModel
debugprint (host + “: ” + args)
TypeError: cannot concatenate ‘str’ and ‘list’ objects
You should comment out the error line at 1531 of newprinter.py, and then continue to add the printer.
4). Finally, you can run hp-check to see what problems exists for the printer.

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Set up the printer last night as a network printer (replacing an older LJ 2300dn). It would not print a test page. To verify that the printer was good, I loaded the drivers into my laptop and connected via usb. Was able to print a test page via usb. Disconnected usb and reconnected network cable. Released and reset ip address. Verified ip address by pinging from host. When I ping the printer I loose usually half of the packets. There are two other HP printers on the network, a P2015dn and a LJ color 2605dn. Pinging their ip address returns 100% with a ttl=255. Pinging the p2055 produced 4 packets sent, 2 packets received, 2 packets lost, ttl=64 on the 2 returns. I have changed cables to the printer and interchanged ports on the network switch (verified the ports on the network switch by printing to the LJ 2605) with the same result. I cannot get the internal web server to come up, or it partially displays, or combinations of the above. If this had the older style removable print server like in my lj2300, I could swap it out, but it doesn't look like I can do that with this model. When I send a test page to the printer, it displays "printing", the green light on the top is flashing, the activity light on the network card is flashing, but nothing happens. Eventually, I get a "this document failed to print' notification on the host, but the printer still indicates "printing" and the lights are still flashing. Anyone have any ideas? I think I'm looking at a bad network/print server card in the P2055.
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I also had problems printing via the network to hp p2055dn. There was no problem printing via USB. All network settings were ok. Can ping, etc...
Many days of wrangling, finally found that the Network Config.Security had to be Reset on the printer's physical control panel.
Press Ok on the printer control panel --> press down arrow, you get to Setup Menu Network Config --> press Ok --> A number of down arrows down you get to Network Config. Security --> press Ok --> you have two options - Keep or Reset --> Choose Reset........ Network printing should be working fine.

Printing: (old) Lexmark Printer via USB - Router - Arch

Hey Guys,
i am trying to get my printer working on Arch.
Printer: Lexmark T632
Router: (Vodafone) EasyBox 802
System: Arch
The printer is kinda old and does not have a network connection, so it is connected via usb with the router.
Printing works with windows (xp to 8).
At the moment i have cups installed, as well as "lexmark-inkjet-legacy".
Cups is working and i can access the network interface, also i can set up a printer. (i did, and its not working - when i try to print the interface says "Filter Failed")
What i did in windows to get it working:
1. add a local printer
2. create a new interface -> default TCP/IP
3. enter ip of the router, in my case 192.168.2.1
4. select the driver
5. for devicetype select custom and not generic
6. in this custom window select protokoll "lpr"
7. and it works.
So, i tried doing this in cups:
1. add printer, LPD/LPR Host or Printer
2. entered ip: "192.168.2.1/515" (as 515 is his queue name given in the router settings), just "192.168.2.1" did not work
3. enter name etc
4. now i can either choose a specific driver, or upload a ppd file. i did the last one as the list does not contain my printer. The file i used for this is http://support.lexmark.com/index?docLoc … rlocale=EN
Now, if i try to print via "lpr filename", no error occurs. But in the networkinterface under "Jobs" under "State" says "stopped, Filter failed"
Guess this is because i dont have the right driver for my printer.
The Lexmark webside provides a .deb package for my printer, but installing this did not help (see http://support.lexmark.com:80/lexmark/i … id=DR21363 ) or get me more entries in the driver selection.
This download also provides a tool called "lexmark" where you can setup printers - but i did not figure out how to use this to set up an lpd printer.
does anyone has an idea what i could do?
Last edited by cars10 (2014-04-21 20:35:08)

czubek wrote:Qinohe had a good suggestion with the RPi. It has two usb ports. One could serve the printer and the other a usb wifi dongle. I have an RPi for my print server but it is hard wired to my router.
Using a RPI has another advantage, you could setup SANE to act as a server together with xinetd, that way everybody in the house can use the scanner too, could be a lot of walking, though
I seldom use the scanner, so I decided to keep that one local, on the PI.
Btw. Mine is also hardwired..

[SOLVED] Printer prints garbage text - Error with pstoraster

I have a Epson Stylus C43SX printer, which is connected to LPT#1.
When I try to print something, the printer will print garbage text.
From cups manager browser interface ( http://localhost:631 ), if I try to print the test page, it prints out garbage.
If I select 'Print self-test page', the cups manager reports an error -
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed"
The description of printer, as seen on cups manager page -
Description: Epson Stylus C43SX
Location:
Printer Driver: Epson Stylus C43SX - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.1
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
Cups package version cups 1.3.4-1
Gutenprint package version gutenprint 5.0.1-3
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Added [SOLVED] to the subject
Last edited by d2v (2007-11-17 08:21:25)

I can print properly again. I reinstalled arch and added the printer using cups http interface.

Installing HP Photosmart B210 (network) fails - posts error 'The Printer Installation Failed'

Hi - I have an HP Pavilion Elite HPE on a home network containing a wireless HP Photosmart B210 printer/scanner. This setup has been working for >1.5 years, then about 2 wks ago, I couldn't print from any application. Win7 would post 'cannot communicate with printer'. Here is what I've done:
1) uninstalled - reinstalled driver SW multiple times - however, Win7 posts 'The Printer installation failed' at the end of installation.
2) The HP print and scan doctor finds the wireless printer - but finds no faults or issues. All green check marks
3) I copied/pasted the webpage address into IE - in the Embedded Webserver home tab it states 'System Error - Network connection error.
4) scanning works fine wirelessly and if I connect the printer via USB cable - I can print.
5) I have a Lenovo desktop and Ipad on my network that prints wireless - so it appears the issue is with the Elite HPE only and not the router.
6) If i'm in Excel and select find printer - i get the error 'The active directory domain services is currently unavailable'
7) I checked the printer spooler and it is started and set to Automatic.
I want to keep the ability to print wirelessly, however, if I can't fix this, i'll have to permanently connect using USB. Any suggestions on what is wrong? Thanks, Rob
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Try the Windows system file checker to see if your operating system has corrupt or otherwise damaged files.. The Command line windows needs to have admin priveleges. The following images are from my Windows 7 desktop, but Vista is virtually the same.
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