I'm hoping someone may be able to give me some pointers on this situation...

Setup is:

motherboard: Gigabyte GA-C1037UN
OS: CentOS 7.2 x86_64
printer: Canon ip2820
Window manager: MATE Desktop

This printer is connected to the system by USB. I added the printer through MATE's "print settings" dialog. When I go to print something, it seems to work correctly from the perspective of the OS (it enters the queue and leaves), but nothing ever comes out of the printer.

The printer does print normally if connected to Windows.

CUPS log says things like:

localhost - - [21/Mar/2016:18:40:45 -0400] "POST /printers/Canon-iP2800-series HTTP/1.1" 200 424 Print-Job successful-ok
localhost - - [21/Mar/2016:18:41:17 -0400] "POST /printers/Canon-iP2800-series HTTP/1.1" 200 424 Print-Job successful-ok

Any ideas why nothing is printing?

Do you make the same experience with each program that you try to print from? This will not solve your problem, but you could try to replace one text-processor against another or try to export a document to PDF prior printing. At least, if one of these attempts succeeds, there is less to be feared from the system-wide printer setup.

I have exactly the same problem with 1 text-processor and documents which contain open-type fonts. Knowing this, I either insist on TrueType-fonts throughout the document or export it to PDF prior printing. Fonts embedded or not, my printer is innocent, as it prints it all.

But if you do not succeed with any other software to print nice documents, then try to find a better printer-driver or check that the printer itself is alright (ink-level, cartridges etc.).

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I haven't really tried multiple things to print. Any recommendations?

I think mostly what I've been using is just the MATE viewer for PDFs - Atril Document Viewer. I'd also be open to trying to print something from the command line - I suppose that uses the lpr command. Not sure what formats are supported there.

When you have the problem regarding fonts etc., do you have the same symptom with nothing printing at all, or does it print but incorrectly?

Thanks!

It sounds like a Printer Driver problem, Is this the first time you have tried the printer?
Maybe this will help.

https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2ht...utenprint-cups

You could just try to print from any office application available or the simple editor, which is certainly installed by default. I do not know the MATE desktop and do also not know the programs which come with your distribution.
If the problem is observed with Atril, try to install and use a different PDF-viewer, for example Acroread, which is the Linux version of the Adobe® Acrobat Reader.
PDF and text are never a problem.
All looks like in your own problem description. The job, when initiated from the text-processor, disappears from the queue as if it had been processed alright. But I have developed the routine to print PDF-documents.

First time trying the printer (or any printer) on this system at least.

(It does work on a Windows computer)

Looks like I already have this installed, however.

# rpm -qa | grep guten
gutenprint-cups-5.2.9-18.el7.x86_64
gutenprint-5.2.9-18.el7.x86_64

Sounds more like a configuration problem. Do you have access to the cups settings page? If so, verify that the printer is set as default and is also active (started) and is accepting jobs. There may be an option to delay printing or print immediately.

This does sound like a driver issue. When the driver's not right, printing sometimes acts like a bit bucket and swallows all output.

Go to http://localhost:631

This should be a CUPS administration page.

Select Printers and see if your printer is there. If not, add it - see below.

select your printer
select maintenance
select print test page

Does that work?

To add a printer:
Select Administration
Select Add Printer
follow the prompts to find and add your printer and configure it

You could try printing a test page from the CUPS web interface Maintenance/Print Test Page option once you locate or define the printer.

If you look in
there should be a file called
If you convert your PDF to postscript:
You should now have a postscript file to work with. This is the same thing that CUPS does.
Now find your PPD file. It may be in
Now you type
This is crucial. All CUPS filters expect this magic environment variable to be set or they WILL FAIL SILENTLY.

Now you type
If that works (it will not say anything) you should now have a binary called 'out.prt' sitting in $PWD. The '1 1 1 1 1' are required, but only affect the header of the resulting file, so they can be anything. Technically, they are
[job# user title #copies options] but only the print spooler cares.

You can now type
and it should print in full glory (assuming your printer is at /dev/usb/lp0).
CUPS just turns this rather simple process into smoke and mirrors, with spooling and all those other features you probably don't need.

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