[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

[James Sumners]

Install the KDE  Cups library. For KDE to properly talk with your Cups printer
it needs it.

`apt-cache search kde cups | less`

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:49:37 +0000
hbbs at comcast.net wrote:

> 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
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