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marco.difresco
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:35 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Problem with network printer Reply with quote

Hi all,
I have a HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw connected via Ethernet with a fixed internal IP. Lately* I am having issues in printing to it.

Okular can print without problems (once I disabled Double Sided Printing in the global printer settings, otherwise it would complain about mismatching settings), but Libreoffice says: "Could not start printer. Please check your printer configuration". On other programs (Brave browser and KMyMoney for now) nothing happen: I get the normal print dialog, I click Print, the dialog disappear as it should, but nothing get printed; I tried to keep open the print queue program and nothing appear there when I click the above "Print" button.

I already tried to reboot the PC, reboot the printer, delete the printer and re-setup it, but without changes. I am using:
    kernel 6.6.10-zen1-x86_64
    net-print/cups-2.4.7-r2
    net-print/hplip-3.23.12
    net-print/hplip-plugin-3.23.12


Thanks and best regards.


* I rarely print from this specific computer and I keep it updated daily, so it is impossible to backtrack exactly when and with which update the problem started.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same problem here. I have solved it with
Code:
emerge cups-filters
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

marco.difresco,

I went through this a few weeks ago. Its resolved now but I don't know why. It's the same printer model too.
Like you, I update fairly frequently too.

I don't have
net-print/hplip
net-print/hplip-plugin
installed, so its probably not those packages.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

zwima wrote:
Same problem here. I have solved it with
Code:
emerge cups-filters


That solved for me too. Thank you very much.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There was a relevant News item back in November, "CUPS no longer directly depends on its filters":

Quote:
cups-filters is required for current versions of CUPS. To prevent depcleaning
if you are a CUPS user (and it was not installed just as a dependency for
something else):

emerge net-print/cups-meta
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