Can't Configure a printer

[wiebe]

Re: Can't Configure a printer

I haven't been able to test it, but I got a fast responce from HP

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I looked at the Kubuntu forum that you refered to. Since there is not
very much detail in each reported problem, it will be hard to diagnose
any of these. But, I would make the following observations:

1. I have found cupsys on Kubuntu and cupsd on non-Debian systems to
perform the same.

2. To use HPLIP, the device URI of the printer as installed in CUPS must
be in the form: "hp:/...". If the printer is installed with
"socket:/..." or "usb:/..." etc, HPLIP will not fully function. I see in
the forum that people are using "parallel:/...", etc. - this will print
OK, but the rest of HPLIP will not work.

3. I was able to most easily install printers in CUPS by disabling the
admin lockout in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. I commented out the
lines:

AuthType Basic
AuthClass System

in the <Location/admin> section at the bottom of the file (comment out
with #'s). Then, restart CUPS. The localhost:631 interface should now
work OK.

4. We have not tested HPLIP with Breezy 64bit, but with other 64bit
systems without problem. I have asked our technician to try and install
Breezy 64bit to test.

5. Parallel support was only added to HPLIP version 0.9.5, released Sept
16, 2005. I'm not sure if this version made it into Breezy. Upgrading to
0.9.6 (the lastest) release, is probably a good idea.

6. There are full instructions for install here:
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php. We are working on (K)ubuntu
instructions, but they are very similar to Debian.

If you have any other issues, I would recommend that you (or other
Kubuntu users) post questions and issues on the HPLIP forum here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=53438

This will ensure that you get better access to help.

Sorry I am unable to directly address your issue, but if you post more
details on the forum, we can probably get it working for you.

Regards,

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[alan]

Re: Can't Configure a printer

I'm having problems too - actually a combination of this problem and another one which I found mentioned in the Hoary section.

After months of trouble free use of Kubuntu Breezy with a Kyocera / Mita FS1020D , samba and Win XP remote (printer connected to Kubuntu USB port, one day it stopped printing. I've thought a long time and I can think of nothing I did to provoke this, no poking around, nothing. The documents get as far as the print spooler, so you can see them in KprintJob utility, but in printer admin it says Printer: Stopped (accepting jobs) and you can't start it. Looking at the status page in cups admin, it says no such device. So I did the chmod 777 /dev/usb/lp0 which randcoop suggested. Then it printed, but then didn't clear the job from the job list. So you have to manually clear this before it will print the next job. This is the state I'm in with it at the moment.

It seems that /dev/usb/lp0 is owned by root and group is lp - lp is the user which cups runs as. So presumably lp is a member of group lp and should have rw permissions to lp0 (the "default" on boot permissions are rw-rw----) Also it seems that there's something in the boot up sequence which is recreating this port with these permissions, thus overriding the chmod "hack". So how do we move forward on this? I should check group members for lp - is there a way of looking at a log somewhere to verify what user cups is running as - also would there be an error log for the spooler which might show why it is not removing the job after printing?

Any thoughts greatfully received

Alan

[randcoop]

Re: Can't Configure a printer

Make sure that you as a user are a member of the lpadmin group. If you run

sudo kcontrol

and then look at Users and Groups and Show All Groups (or something like that), then take a look at lpadmin. Should be two users: cupsys and your username. If you're not there, add yourself. Then I think the permissions should take.

[oblio]

Re: Can't Configure a printer

After reading some related bits and pieces here on the forum I got a solution that worked for me:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3870.0

Regards,