CUPS USB Printing Issues

[Juanito]

cups-filters and libsane/sane-backends recompiled and posted.

cups should not need libpoppler.so.37 (I had not realised the poppler extension was recently updated) and sane-backends should not need libtiff.so.3. It also looks like sane-backends used udev now.

Unfortunately the x86 version of hplip is too old for my printer so I cannot test - let me know how it goes...

[Juanito]

I updated the hplip extension so I could print/scan in 32-bit tc-6.x

cups finds my network printer all on it's own, selects the correct driver and prints the test page without permissions errors, etc.

I need to use "xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_6700?ip=192.168.1.170" for xsane to find the scanner, but otherwise it works fine.

I realise this is not the same as using a directly connected printer/scanner, but hopefully things will work.

Now I just need to recompile xsane as it has a dep on gimp2 

[Falco]

Creating symlinks in /usr/lib/ for libpoppler.so.37 and libtiff.so.3 solves those issues.

Probably not the best solution,however, I have:
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.37 -> /usr/local/lib/libpoppler.so.50
/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 -> /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so.5


The problem I seem to be running into now, is with scanimage. If I plug the scanner in, run "scanimage -L" it shows me scanner. When I run the same command again, it tells me nothing can be found. It seems that the scanner can only be queried/used/scanned the very first time. I am capable of scanning with xsane as well. however if must be the query/use/scan the scanner, then if I close xsane and try to re-open it, it tells me that no device can be found. If I unplug then plug the scanner back in, this process restarts.
- I have added the epjitsu.conf
- I have added the .nal that the scanner is looking for

Any ideas?

[Falco]

I will let you know how everything works out.

I did get xsane working only after I installed gimp.

Thank you, for the help.

[Juanito]

xsane fixed, it will now work without gimp.

[Juanito]

Ref libpoppler, etc - did you try updating cups-filters, libsane and sane-backends with the apps gui?

Those issues should be solved now.

Of course, you'll need to remove the symlinks.

[Falco]

cups and xsane now work the way you had mentioned.

I am still running into the issue of the scanner device disappearing after it is used once.