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HishnGA
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 Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 8:09 pm Post subject: CUPS Printing problem |
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| Hello all. I am working on getting my Gentoo system cranked up. I did the emerge gimp-print-cups and it installed the latest cups plus the latest gimp-print cups. Then I went in with my web browser and setup the printer. But when I try to print from it I get the following error message "Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job X". I have now removed and re-emerge it a second time with no change. I have removed ghostscript from my machine for now but that did not seem to change anything. Does any one have any good suggestions on other things to try? Thanks. |
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IntrinsiX
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| Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi!
Exactly the same problem here. What this means is that CUPS doesn't know how to convert the format to something that the printer can read, so I checked to see if there is any information on the CUPS website.
This is what I found:
| http://www.cups.org/software.html wrote: | CUPS 1.1.15 and higher no longer include the PostScript RIP filter, pstoraster, necessary for printing PostScript, PDF, text, or HP-GL/2 files to non-PostScript printers. You must also install a version of Ghostscript with the "cups" raster driver (gdevcups.c) to print to non-PostScript printers.
The CUPS distribution includes the necessary files to add to a standard Ghostscript source distribution, or you can download the current ESP Ghostscript distribution. |
Possibly, the package maintainer didn't notice this. I'm going to try and replace CUPS 1.1.15 with 1.1.14, that should do the job until this is fixed...
Marten Klencke |
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HishnGA
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| Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 11:52 am Post subject: CUPS Printing Problem continue'd |
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| Let me know how that works. I tried installing the latest version of EPS Ghostscript from the CUPS web site and that did not work. It can not find the relevant fonts. I will give what you are going to do a try and see how that works. Thanks. |
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IntrinsiX
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| Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 12:53 pm Post subject: 1.1.14 Works! |
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Hi!
Well, 1.1.14 works perfectly 
I only had some trouble with unmerging 1.1.15, but I did that eventually by specifying the /var/db/pkg/net-print/cups-1.1.15.ebuild file manually.
Marten Klencke |
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HishnGA
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| Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you email me specifically the steps you took? I installed CUPS 1.1.14, the latest GIMP-PRINT-CUPS, and the latest GHOSTSCRIPT and I am still getting the same error. I may go back and unmerge all three and start over fresh. I am sure there is just a minor order or such step I am missing and hence the problem. Thanks. |
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HishnGA
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| Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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I finally got it working. It tooking following packages as a unit:
CUPS-1.1.14-r4
GhostScript-6.5.3-r2
GIMP-PRINTING-CUPS-4.2.0-r1.
Now I can print from the gentoo box no problem. Now to my next problem. Getting samba to share the printers out. So far I can get it show them and such. But when I try to print it just seems to vanish. There are no log references on either CUPS or SAMBA that anyone sent a print job. Oh well, another mysetery to solve. |
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olennert
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| Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 6:45 am Post subject: CUPS-printing via samba |
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You may have a different problem from mine, but here goes anyway:
I had a similar problem. It turned out that I was using the wrong print-command. In an earlier life (with Mandrake 7.2), I used lpr-cups to print, and since I basically copied my smb.conf to the gentoo box, I was still trying to print with lpr-cups.
I couldn't find anything about this in the logs, but in the end I changed my print command to cat %s > /some/file/some/where, and did an lpr-cups -Plp -o raw /some/file/some/where manually. Of course this failed, since there is no lpr-cups on my gentoo system. This made me see the light, and I changed the print-command to lpr -P %p %s. And now I can print via samba. |
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zigg
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