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I am using CUPS to print to a Canon BJ 43010SP connected to a network by an ethernet print server.
Connecting via lpd://192.168.0.10:515/lp and using CUPS with a Canon 43000Gimp-Print v 4.26 driver, everything works fine.
But, when I tried to use a PPD (from www.linuxprinting.org) specific to the Canon 4310SP I had a problem.
I tested the PPD file with 'cupstestppd' and it was fine.
The PPD file seemed to install fine, using the CUPS setup browser interface. But when tried to print a test page nothing happpened. Checking in a terminal the printer's status was "Attempting to connect to host 192.168.0.10 for printer lp" and just stayed that way.
All the foomatic packages are installed and I tried stopping and re-starting CUPS (even re-booting).
I don't know much about this, but I've just worked through a long post on this forum about my own cups network printing problem, and in the process have looked through the cupsd.conf file quite a bit. Take a look at the Browse and Listen settings in that file to make sure that machines on your network can connect properly. Also, I had to choose the non-foomatic driver choice for my printer to get network printing to work properly.
As I said, I don't know much, but maybe some of this will help.
Thanks for your interest - I read your post with interest.
Actually the network connection works fine for the gimp-print drivers. I have used the debug setting in cupsd.conf to trap the errors. The extract below says (I think) that the problem is connected with cups using the foomatic-rip filter utility:
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:40 +0000] New printer 'BJC4310SP' added by 'root'.
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:43 +0000] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=2016)
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:48 +0000] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=2017)
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 1.
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 1.
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] Job 1 queued on 'BJC4310SP' by 'root'.
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2018) for job 1.
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 2019) for job 1.
I [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd (PID 2020) for job 1.
E [22/Jul/2004:18:42:49 +0000] PID 2019 stopped with status 2!
The funny thing is that when I tried the "lprng" printing method, using apsfilter to setup the printer, I was able to get both the gimp-print and foomatic ppds to work. But only as testpages from apsfilter - that is a whole other story. However, the foomatic output was much better (and faster) than the gimp-print.
Hence why I am trying to get the cups system to work - at least I have been able to get it to work (using the gimp-print drivers) with applications.
As a (hopefully) refugee from Windows, I just can't believe that the printing in Linux is so difficult.
I just can't believe that the printing in Linux is so difficult.
A major part of printing difficulties under Linux are due to printer manufacturers not providing decent driver support for Linux. I recently bought a local laser printer (Samsung ML-1710) that comes with a proprietary CUPS driver for Linux (with a GUI driver setup program!) on CD and now I can print in Linux just as easily as in WinXP, with the same printing options and the same printing quality. I guess Linux has to become a bit more popular before printer manufacturers wake up to realize that offering drivers for Linux helps to sell their products. My initial intention was to buy a HP or Canon or Epson printer but after visiting linuxprinting.org and checking the Linux support for their printers, I decided to go for Samsung instead.
I don't know if this will be of any help, but have you tried the "xpp" (X Printing Panel) program, which you can use to tweak most properties of your CUPS driver? I have no idea how to make CUPS to use the foomatic/ghostscript driver but with xpp you should at least be able to sqeeze the best output of the gimp-print driver.
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