Bug#700243: cups: Could not print with a wheezy client and hpijs driver

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

severity 700243 normal
thanks



Hello Jérôme,

Thank you for your report. In the context of CUPS you are able to print,
so I am putting its severity at normal.

On Sun 10 Feb 2013 at 14:13:11 +0000, Jérôme Frgacic wrote:

> I have a `server' on Debian squeeze which use an HP Officejet 4500 printer.
> For printing, I'm using cups and the hpijs driver, and all works well.
> Nevertheless, I have a `client' on Debian wheezy and I can only print if
> I choose the hpcups driver. If I use the hpijs driver, I obtain the message
> `Unable to open the initial device, quitting' on the paper.

My thinking at present is that this is not a bug in CUPS, but let's have
some further information first. On the server and client do

   echo '' > /var/log/cups/error_log

and then print a job (a small text file would do) on the client. Please post
the error logs if the job fails to print on the printer. Would you also send
the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd which is being used.

Also, although it should not make any difference, having your Squeeze
machine up-to-date wouldn't do any harm.

Regards,

Brian.