Re: Etch/Cupsys/Gutenprint - failure to communicate

[Matthew Krauss <Matthew@Greenberg-Group.com>]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> José Alburquerque wrote:
> > Matthew Krauss wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On a clean new Etch install, I can't seem to see any Gutenprint 
> > > printer drivers (ie. the Canon iP4000) from any Cupsys printer setup 
> > > tool (ie. gnome-cups-manager, http://localhost:631).  I have cupsys, 
> > > cupsys-driver-gutenprint, and foomatic-db-gutenprint installed.  
> > > Plenty of printer drivers show up, but none of them seem to be 
> > > Gutenprint drivers.  I have also tried upgrading to the cupsys in 
> > > Sid.  I have googled endlessly.
> > >
> > > Help?!
> > >
> > > Thanks much,
> > > Matthew
> > In case this might help, here's a list of the gutenprint packages 
> > installed on my sid system:
> >
> > [07:48][jose@sweety:~]$ dpkg -l | grep -i guten | cut -d' ' -f 3
> > cupsys-driver-gutenprint
> > foomatic-db-gutenprint
> > ijsgutenprint
> > libgutenprint2
> > libgutenprintui2-1
> >
> > Also, by reading the package description, I found that if you want 
> > to  be able to select your printer from the web interface of CUPS, 
> > you'll probably want to have the 'foomatic-filters-ppds' package 
> > installed.  HTH.
> What's really weird is that I don't see your printer or mine (Epson 
> Stylus C82) on the list of drivers using gnome-cups-manager or the 
> cups web interface.  I do see both the Canon iP4000 and the Stylus C82 
> using the foomatic-gui.  Here are the foomatic packages on my system:
>
> [07:48][jose@sweety:~]$ dpkg -l | grep -i fooma | cut -d' ' -f 3
> foomatic-db
> foomatic-db-engine
> foomatic-db-gutenprint
> foomatic-db-hpijs
> foomatic-filters
> foomatic-filters-ppds
> foomatic-gui
> python-foomatic
Thanks José, I forgot to mention that foomatic-gui recognizes the driver 
-- but at least for me, foomatic-gui won't set it up in a way that 
actually, you know, works and stuff.

This is why I titled the post "... failure to communicate" -- it looks 
like Cupsys and Gutenprint (or maybe Cupsys and Foomatic?) are 
effectively not communicating.

Yes, I have all those exact same packages installed, actually.

Looks like you and I have the same problem.  At least I'm not alone in 
this :)

Something you may find useful:  I can (and have) actually set up the 
printer using an entirely incorrect driver.  This doesn't let *me* print 
-- but it does let me share the printer so the Windows machine on my 
network can print to it just fine.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Regards,
Matthew