[SOLVED] Printer not recognised (more problems)

[azenz]

My Epson CX6600 is immediately recognised on my laptop running Lucid, but on the desktop there is nothing, no reaction and printer is not found - in KDE printer config there are only buttons for 'new printer' and 'server settings', neither of which allow adding a local printer! Kprinteradd also shows no selective option for 'backend', so doesn't work. That's really strange since it has always worked in previous Kubuntu versions (over 3 of them). Any ideas?

[tweev]

Re: Printer not recognised

I'm having a similar issue. All my printers were working great before the upgrade - damn the siren song up the distro-upgrade button!

I'm a little lost on this one. I'm trying to add a network printer.
Thanks you.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Printer not recognised

You might want to try the appropriate deb package for the printer driver from this site: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/...-stylus_cx6600.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Printer not recognised

I have always had better success with cups directly rather than the printer setup dialogs.

Open a browser, type localhost:631 in the url bar, click on the appropriate options

[pcupitt]

Re: Printer not recognised

I just had the same issue installing my HP Photosmart C8180 especially as it connects wirelessly. To solve the issue I:
Read heaps of forum posts
Ignored Lucid Lynx's printer wizard ('Cause it kind of sucks really)
Downloaded HPLIP from Applications/System/Software Management (KPackageKit)
Then my printer was found almost instantly, configured in about two mouse clicks and was fully working within 2 minutes of installation.
It probably only works for HP printers but I am suggesting there may be something like this for other Manufacturers printers. I also seem to remember seeing something about it using CUPPS instead of whatever Lucid uses natively.
MAYBE it is just MY printer that caused the issue but from an End User standpoint it represents a "One Try - One Fail" score for a brand new OS. Could be better huh?
Apart from this, I'm liking Lucid a lot ................so far.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Printer not recognised

In response to your comment about System Settings not have a local printer tab - I believe it does not show up if there is no printer detected locally.

Mine shows a local printer tab because I install the PDF printer.

If your connection is usb, do lsusb in a terminal and see if it is listed.

[Snowhog]

Re: Printer not recognised

And if it's a USB printer, and you can't get the system or CUPS to see it, then see my [SOLVED] Why can't I access my USB printer? post.

[azenz]

Re: Printer not recognised

You might want to try the appropriate deb package for the printer driver from this site: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/...-stylus_cx6600.

Thanks, that DID IT!!! Bingo. You know, every time I upgrade my Kubuntu I run into a new problem, and mostly I am eventually able to fix it. But it sure does take time...

************** UPDATE: *************

After restarting the printer again doesn't show up. I then repeated the epson driver install and restarted CUPS and it worked again. I had also executed the command sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb, not sure if that did anything or not. In any case, things aren't quite solved. Any ideas what the issue could be?

[devnulljp]

Re: Printer not recognised

And if it's a USB printer, and you can't get the system or CUPS to see it, then see my [SOLVED] Why can't I access my USB printer? post.

How did you actually fix it? Did you do the parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 thing? I can't see where/how to do that though...

[Snowhog]

Re: Printer not recognised

How did you actually fix it? Did you do the parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 thing? I can't see where/how to do that though...

Yes. You need to follow the link to the Bug report, where "Begining with comment #24 by Till Kamppeter, resulted in the solution, all today!"

[devnulljp]

Re: Printer not recognised

How did you actually fix it? Did you do the parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 thing? I can't see where/how to do that though...

Yes. You need to follow the link to the Bug report, where "Begining with comment #24 by Till Kamppeter, resulted in the solution, all today!"

I did, and I can't find a solution.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ps/+bug/468701
Are you talking about this:

Paul L, I see, HAL and its CUPS backend were working around the problem that your printer does not return a usable device ID. HAL is deprecated now and therefore the hal CUPS backend is no part of Ubuntu any more. If your Panasonic is your only USB printer you can use the device URI

parallel:/dev/usb/lp0

as alternative in Karmic or Lucid.

K->System->Settings->Printer Configuration ... then I can't see any way to get that in there

Otherwise, this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/472165...-newline.patch
gave me this:

sudo ./cups-deviced-allow-device-ids-with-newline.patch -patch
patching file scheduler/cups-deviced.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 577.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file scheduler/cups-deviced.c.rej

[Snowhog]

Re: Printer not recognised (more problems)

In K->System->Settings->Printer Configuration ... click on Network Printer.

[devnulljp]

Re: Printer not recognised (more problems)

Solved

Realised I didn't apply the patch to the source tree
Downloaded the source for cups-1.4.3 from here, applied the patch form here.
./configure
make
sudo make install

And I'm back in business.
Thanks for the info.

[azenz]

Re: [SOLVED] Printer not recognised (more problems)

What I'm doing now is running this script at start-up:

sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

I have to do that at every start-up to make the system recognise the printer. I have been using Kubuntu for 4 years with the same printer and never had this problem before!

[devnulljp]

Re: [SOLVED] Printer not recognised (more problems)

The patched cups has been accepted into lucid-proposed. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.

K->Settings->Software Sources->Updates
check Proposed updates (lucid-proposed)

Or add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] lucid-proposed restricted main multiverse universe

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