Bug#402538: kdeprint: escputil fails with usb printer
Package: kdeprint
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kdeprint depends on:
ii enscript 1.6.4-11 Converts ASCII text to Postscript,
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii poster 1:19990428-8 Create large posters out of PostSc
ii psutils 1.17-24 A collection of PostScript documen
Versions of packages kdeprint recommends:
ii evince [postscript-viewe 0.4.0-2+b2 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii gs-esp [postscript-viewe 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.6.2-2 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
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In the print manager you can select the printer tool - escputil and it fails to
connect providing an error message instead. Changing the printer device uri
to /dev/usr/lp0 lets it work but confuses other things.
CUPS doesn't use the actual USB port in the printer device URI, but a pseudo-URI
based on information obtained by polling the USB port (manufacturer and model).
This port<->device mapping is currently not supported by escputil or kdeprint.
The only workaround is to use a device URI like usb:/dev/usb/lp0 instead of
the URI proposed by the wizard (coming from CUPS) when creating the printer.
See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97113
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