I am running Debian lenny. My scanner (epson 1200 perfection Photo) using xsane interface, will not copy to my HP5440 printer. Printing works from Office. I have set it up in the Xsane interface to use the queue name given when I set up the printer. I have also tried several other names. Scanning to view works fine.

Does the command, that you set up in xsane, work from the commandline ?
If not, give more info please. How did you set up your printer (cups ?) How do you print from other applications/commandline ? What command did you enter in the xsane configuration for copy ?

Thank you for your reply.

Does the command, that you set up in xsane, work from the commandline ?
If not, give more info please. How did you set up your printer (cups ?) How do you print from other applications/commandline ? What command did you enter in the xsane configuration for copy ?ma

My system is intel , 4 G of memory.Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz stepping 06 And 640 Gb hard drive. OS os Debian Lenny 4.0 Kernel ver 2.6.24 64bit. Debian is the only OS on the computer.
I have loaded everything in the synaptic package manager that I thought could possibly be useful except the CUPS stuff. I am not familiar with that and thought it might conflict with something else. In checking back I see that CUPS is loaded, but not CUPS commands.
In setting up the printer I clicked “Applications, system tools, printers”, entered password, got a menu titled “foomatic-gui”. I clicked “add”, got the option to “add printer queue”. I followed the wizard to set up the queue. At the end it gave me the queue name, “deskjet_5400_series”
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I click Applications, Graphics, Xsane Image scanning program. I get xsane 0.995 device selection. It has two options: Epson Perfection 1200 flatbed scanner (Epson2:libusb:004:002)
Epson Perfection 1200 flatbed Scanner (Epson:libusb:004:002)
I have tried both. I now will try the first.
I get the menu block titled “xsane 0.995 perfection1200:002 I will show only pertinent data.
Copy
deskjet_5400_series
color, etc and scan at the botton
I click “scan” It scans and I get : Error during save: Broken pipe with the option “OK” I click OK
I get Error during save: Resource temporarily unavailable (my note: printer is on and ready)
I click on OK I get Error during save: Resource temporarily unavailable.
I click on OK I get “Failed to execute printer command: “lpr -P deskjet_5400_series”

I went to google to find a printer command that I had forgotten. In printing out the page the print options menu came us showing the printer as “ CUPS/deskjet_5400_series”. The page from google printed.

I thought the “CUPS/deskjet_5400_series might solve the problem. I tried that command line in the COPY/Scan menu, but to no avail.
I made the following entries from the command line (not as SU). I am not sure the syntax is correct but all seem to be saying the printer is not found.

lpr -P deskjet_series_5400_series
lpr: deskjet_series_5400_series: unknown printer

mfk@localhost:~$ lpr -P CUPS/deskjet_5400_series
lpr: CUPS/deskjet_5400_series: unknown printer
mfk@localhost:~$
mfk@localhost:~$ lpr -P deskjet_5400_series
lpr: deskjet_5400_series: unknown printer
mfk@localhost:~$

Then as SU
mfk@localhost:~$ su
Password:
localhost:/home/mfk# lpr -P deskjet_5400_series /etc/motd
lpr: deskjet_5400_series: unknown printer
localhost:/home/mfk# lpr -P 5440 USB Printer #1 /etc/motd
lpr: 5440: unknown printer
localhost:/home/mfk# lpr -P CUPS/deskjet_5400_series /etc/motd
lpr: CUPS/deskjet_5400_series: unknown printer
localhost:/home/mfk#

I print from OpenOffice by clicking on File, then Print (which shows the printer name as just “deskjet_5400_series” or by clicking on the printer icon at the top of the page. Both work fine.

what happens if you just type

lpr /etc/motd

?

edit: if the above command does not work, please try

lp /etc/motd

This is the output from those two trys.
mfk@localhost:~$ lpr /etc/motd
(No output after this line

mfk@localhost:~$ lp /etc/motd
request id is deskjet_5400_series-6 (1 file(s))
mfk@localhost:~$

this looks about right to me. Did the document print ? If yes, go to xsane settings, and in the copy menu enter as printer command "lpr" or "lp". Then it should work.

The name of the printer obviously is "deskjet_5400_series-6" (not "deskjet_5400_series"), but you don't have to specify this explicitly, because it will use the default printer if you leave the -P option away.

I now have in the Xsane menu CUPS/deskjet_5400_series-6 for the name. (I tried it with and without the CUPS/) The command line is lp -P deskjet_5400_series-6
I still get the same error messages and no printer output. the lp /etc/motd is the command that produced output from the command line but not from xsane.

have you tried without the -P option (this option only works for lpr btw.). Try with only lpr or lp. See this pic.

http://s10.directupload.net/file/d/1...gaqwkj_png.htm

I tried both. I now have lp deskjet_5400_series-6
This is copied from the xsane setup menu. I tried to do screen shots but they come out too small to send. I looked at the pix. That is the same as where I am making my changes. It seems to all come down to the fact that this application is not finding the printer. I cannot understand why the "lp deskjet_5400_series-6" will print the /etc/motd file and the Office documents will print but it cannot find the printer here. Is there a file somewhere that needs to have something manually added? MFK

Since my last post here I deleted the printer configuration and reinstalled it the same way. The printer is still identified as deskjet_5400_series. The command line in the xsane setup is set to lpr and I no longer get an error when I copy from the scanner. However, when the scan completes nothing else ever happens. I can still send things to the printer from Office and other things I want to print, but the Copy from the scanner does not do anything, no errors or print.
I work with this just when I have time so my responses here are scattered. I hope my reply here will benefit someone else. I am nor organized enough to know what I have done a lot of times so cannot report it accurately. Thanks to all who have responded to this and other posts.

Mon. Feb. 23 8:49 pm. When I scan with the Xsane Copy option it scans with no error and spools the output, but no print. When I give the command lpq I get the following messages.


debian:/home/mfk# lpq
lp is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active mfk 14 (standard input) 32740 bytes
debian:/home/mfk#

But, it is not printing. MFK