Problem with Cups/Xsane printer settings
The situation after recent Etch dist-upgrades of Xsane and Cups:
The following Cups commands
lp -d br printtest.txt
and
lpr -P br printtest.txt
work where br is defined by Cups as a Brothers HL-730 laser printer on
the lan attached to a Sarge box. The lp command reports a job number,
the lpr command does not.
If I enter the first of the above commands in the Xsane
Preferences/Setup/Copy/Command line and try to copy I get a broken pipe
message.
If I enter the second of the above commands in the Xsane
Preferences/Setup/Copy/Command line and try to copy I get garbage -
i.e. the printer prints pages of random characters. Apparently
ghostscript is bypassed.
I also have an HP DeskJet 6540 on the lan attached to an Etch box. It
was the default printer. The recent Etch dist-upgrade of Cups reassigned
its address to usb://HP/Deskjet%206500?serialMY59M4Q1PW049X and reports
the default printer formerly known as hp as failed. Nonetheless the
commands lp and lpr printtest.txt work as describe above.
If I run Xsane Copy with the default "new printer" - the only printer
shown after the upgrade - it uses the HP Deskjet.
Bottom Line: I can't use my Brothers printer with xsane and I can't
customize the setup of the HP Deskjet.
If anyone has had any luck defining printers in the Xsane
Preferences/Setup/Copy/Command line I would appreciate help in resolving
my problem.
Tom George
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