CUPS printing blank pages...

dEnDrOn · 08-08-2011, 03:24 AM

i wish to install Canon PIXMA iP1300 printer in fedora 15 gnome3 !
My printer drivers are not available in CUPS database.So i found this.As it can be seen that the method told there is for ubuntu and i nearly survived it but then i'm getting blank pages only.
So, Can someone please translate those steps for me to install my printer in fedora ?
I think i missed something and that is why i'm not able to print anything !

EDDY1 · 08-08-2011, 06:02 AM

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

dEnDrOn · 08-08-2011, 06:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

this is not working...when i follow those steps even the printer doesn't take the paper in earlier i was atleast receiving blank pages ejected out !
i've posted my issue on that website..

EDDY1 · 08-08-2011, 01:27 PM

Have you added yourself to printer group?

dEnDrOn · 08-08-2011, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

Have you added yourself to printer group?

how do i do that ?
i've not shared my printer !

EDDY1 · 08-08-2011, 08:30 PM

Either in Users & Groups
or /etc/group

Users & Groups under Advanced Tab
in /etc/group I believe you would add you name to 'lp'

business_kid · 08-09-2011, 03:19 AM

I tried to install a cannon printer in cups some years back and got disastrous results only. I came to a forum, listened to everybody, did everything, and failed totally to get anything but ascii after setting up as their binary language. It would spit pages with a small number of ascii hieroglyphics on them.I tried everything that anyone could think of.

So I circumnavigated cups. Run gs-h and look for anything like a driver for your printer. Cups is a scheduler, ghostscript is actually the print engine. I wrote a hint for the LFS lot, to which someone contributed a script, and he maintains it now. Configuration information is there.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint.../files/pfs.txt

dEnDrOn · 08-09-2011, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

Either in Users & Groups
or /etc/group

Users & Groups under Advanced Tab
in /etc/group I believe you would add you name to 'lp'

/etc/group contains :

Code:

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
video:x:39:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
lock:x:54:
audio:x:63:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
utmp:x:22:
utempter:x:35:
usbmuxd:x:113:
dbus:x:81:
ctapiusers:x:499:
oprofile:x:16:
rpc:x:32:
named:x:25:
avahi-autoipd:x:170:
wireshark:x:498:
rtkit:x:172:
abrt:x:173:
rpcuser:x:29:
nfsnobody:x:65534:
jackuser:x:497:
mock:x:496:
cdrom:x:11:
tape:x:33:
dialout:x:18:
floppy:x:19:
apache:x:48:
pulse:x:495:
pulse-access:x:494:
saslauth:x:493:
avahi:x:70:
cgred:x:492:
haldaemon:x:68:
hsqldb:x:96:
smolt:x:491:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
stapdev:x:490:
stapusr:x:489:
stap-server:x:155:
vcsa:x:69:
openvpn:x:488:
kvm:x:36:qemu
qemu:x:107:
mysql:x:27:
ntp:x:38:
jetty:x:487:
gdm:x:42:
torrent:x:486:
nm-openconnect:x:485:
postgres:x:26:
webalizer:x:67:
backuppc:x:484:apache
sshd:x:74:
squid:x:23:
wbpriv:x:88:squid
distcache:x:94:
dovecot:x:97:
dovenull:x:483:
news:x:13:
tcpdump:x:72:
screen:x:84:
ccache:x:482:
slocate:x:21:
neuron:x:501:
gnokii:x:481:
radvd:x:75:

/etc/group- contains :

Code:

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
video:x:39:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
lock:x:54:
audio:x:63:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
utmp:x:22:
utempter:x:35:
usbmuxd:x:113:
dbus:x:81:
ctapiusers:x:499:
oprofile:x:16:
rpc:x:32:
named:x:25:
avahi-autoipd:x:170:
wireshark:x:498:
rtkit:x:172:
abrt:x:173:
rpcuser:x:29:
nfsnobody:x:65534:
jackuser:x:497:
mock:x:496:
cdrom:x:11:
tape:x:33:
dialout:x:18:
floppy:x:19:
apache:x:48:
pulse:x:495:
pulse-access:x:494:
saslauth:x:493:
avahi:x:70:
cgred:x:492:
haldaemon:x:68:
hsqldb:x:96:
smolt:x:491:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
stapdev:x:490:
stapusr:x:489:
stap-server:x:155:
vcsa:x:69:
openvpn:x:488:
kvm:x:36:qemu
qemu:x:107:
mysql:x:27:
ntp:x:38:
jetty:x:487:
gdm:x:42:
torrent:x:486:
nm-openconnect:x:485:
postgres:x:26:
webalizer:x:67:
backuppc:x:484:apache
sshd:x:74:
squid:x:23:
wbpriv:x:88:squid
distcache:x:94:
dovecot:x:97:
dovenull:x:483:
news:x:13:
tcpdump:x:72:
screen:x:84:
ccache:x:482:
slocate:x:21:
neuron:x:501:
gnokii:x:481:

please guide me which one to modify !

EDDY1 · 08-09-2011, 12:20 PM

You may have to redo it, did you try uninstalling then reinstalling?

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

dEnDrOn · 08-10-2011, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

You may have to redo it, did you try uninstalling then reinstalling?

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

i uninstalled all "cnijfilter" packages (using yum extender) before following steps given on the link provided by you !