Can't print to second cups printer

Electro · 01-28-2007, 01:35 PM

It does help to have LogLevel set to debug or debug2.

snotty69 · 01-29-2007, 09:24 AM

Thank you Electro!
That was helpful!! [edit] setting LogLevel to debug2 [edit]

I've ended up getting printing to work on my ubuntu 6.10
I had a symlink from /bin/csh to /bin/bash...... left from previous tries.
Reinstalled the works (cups brlprmfcxxxxcn cupswrappermfcxxxxcn)

On my debian box print-jobs are now vanishing.
No more time right now; definitely will be back for more.

snotty69 · 02-05-2007, 05:06 AM

Hai all,

Well it works.
Don't ask me why. My best guess is a new version of cups. This could have something to do with this?
(/usr/share/doc/cupsys/changelog.Debian.gz)

Code:

cupsys (1.2.7-3) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Kenshi Muto ]
  * removed STR2137 patch. This patch corruted some
    Postscript files. (closes: #403703) This was a release 
    critical bug.
  .........

installed software:
cupsys 1.2.7-3
libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10
gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1

My /etc/printcap

Code:

# Default handler

MFC5840CN:\
        :mx=0:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/MFC5840CN:\
        :sh:\
        :rm=192.168.123.109:\
        :rp=lp:\
        :if=/usr/local/Brother/lpd/filterMFC5840CN:

My /etc/cups/printers.conf

Code:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.7
# Written by cupsd on 2007-02-04 12:24
<Printer DeskJet-930C>
Info DeskJet-930C
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
StateTime 1170423062
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer MFC5840CN>
Info MFC5840CN
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.123.109
State Idle
StateTime 1170588291
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

Hope this helps.
Kind Regards and thank you for your assistance

rbees · 02-05-2007, 09:38 AM

Thanks to all

Updating cups to 1.2.7-4 fixed my problem too snotty69.

INFO:

my printcap file is /var/run/cups/printcap and looks like

Code:

# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
# will be lost.
hplaserjet4si|hplaserjet4si:rm=localhost.localdomain:rp=hplaserjet4si:
MFC5440CN|MFC5440CN:rm=localhost.localdomain:rp=MFC5440CN:

I have notified Brother and hope they will post something on their site about this.

Thanks to all. Hope this helps someone else.