[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

[hbbs at comcast.net]

The simple act of getting a Canon BJC-4300 printer workign in Debian Woody has me tied up in knots.

I should say from the outset that I got an Epson Color Stylus IIs working on the same machine but its alignment was so bad that I can't go forward with it (escputil was a dead end, BTW).

The CUPS admin Web app acts like the printer is there and working, BTW, I went to linuxprinting.org and went thru the procedure for downloading and installing the gimp-print ppd file as it recommended.  I re-added the printer and all appears to have gone as expected but still there's no printer movement.

CUPS test page acts like its' working but no movement.  "lpr /etc/fstab" acts like it works; no movement (CPU grinds, job appears in list, completes and shuffles off to completed jobs list).  Printing from an app like kword gives me an error that reads:

/usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' /root/.kde/tmp-micron/kdeprint_ZlrRvBg: execution failed with message:  lpr:  unable to print file:  client-error-not-found

In watching (via tail -f) /var/log/cups/error_log, jobs appear to run normally and exit with status 1 when printing test page or "lpr /etc/fstab", but when i print from kword it also says after that "print_job:  resource name '/printers/lp' no good!"

Any hope here?

- Jeff