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beerstein:
Hello all:
I saw the many posts on all kind of cups problems. So far I was lucky with cups
until I tried to hook it to a samsung multi function printer.

cups 1.311 is installed and works
gutenprint and foomatic-rip is installed onboot but I only can see the gutenprint printers listed.
I can not see any foomatic entries?
USB port works

http://localhost:631
admin..  even sees the printer
but when it comes to slect the .ppd I can not see any foomatic related pdd?
therefore I downloaded several ppd for this printer and put them into /etc/cups/ppd
and because I could not find a ppd in that list I selected one of these ppd files and installed.

when trying to print a test page:
"/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" error message shows up

Can somebody please help?

Thank you

 

Juanito:
Did you try setting the log level to dubug in cupsd.conf, restarting cups and trying again - the error messages often help track down the problem

beerstein:
Thank you for this - I will look at this and post the results. What does not make sense to me is, that I see
the printers from the gutenprint.tcz but not from the foomatic-rip.tcz do I have to start the foomatic thing?
The .ppd files come from gutenprint and foomatic? Is this correct?
The .ppd files from gutenprint are in /etc/cups/ppd ?
Where do you think, are the foomatic .ppd files?

Juanito:

--- Quote from: beerstein on March 25, 2011, 04:37:21 AM ---Where do you think, are the foomatic .ppd files?

--- End quote ---

As far as I know, you need to find your own, they are not supplied in the cups source tarball

Guy:

--- Quote ---therefore I downloaded several ppd for this printer and put them into /etc/cups/ppd
--- End quote ---

Put the ppd in another directory.

When you install, cups will put it in /etc/cups/ppd.


You obviously need the correct driver to start with.

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