[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Sat Nov 15 14:00:14 EST 2003


Here's what I get:

	user at micron:~$ apt-cache search kde cups
	kdelibs3-cups - KDE print system (CUPS support)

Does that mean it's installed?

- Jeff

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 13:26, James Sumners wrote:
> 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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