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Re: printing troubles



On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:36:28 +0000, Gary Parker wrote:
> On 2007-07-21 at 18:50:29 GMT, Florian Kulzer writes:
> > How do you print the test page?
> 
> The CUPS web interface.
> 
> > Is the hplip package installed on the shorewall box? If not, try to
> > install it and see if that helps.
> 
> Yes hplip is installed.
>  
> > Otherwise, try to use IPP (internet printing protocol) instead of
> > JetDirect:
> > ipp://ip-address-or-hostname/resource
> 
> I just tried ipp://192.168.1.49/ipp as suggested in the CUPS Using Network
> Printers page.  I also tried ipp://192.168.1.49.  After sending a test page
> through the CUPS web interface I get:
> "Network host '192.168.1.49' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."
> 
> Still, I can print a test page from the CUPS web interface using
> socket://192.168.1.49.  I also tried socket://192.168.1.49:9100; I can still
> print  the test page from the web interface but "lp -d HPC6180 file.ps" fails,
> "lp: Connection refused."
> 
> Some success:  $ lp -d HPC6180 -h 192.168.1.49:9100 major_surplus.ps
> This did get the printer to print, but it printed garbage and blank pages, many
> of each.
> 
> Also, $ lpr -P HPC6180 -H 192.168.1.49:9100 info/cdrecord_trouble.txt
> More garbage!
> 
> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Did you already try to set

LogLevel debug

in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the problematic computer? Maybe that will
give you a clue where things go wrong. (I think cupsd needs to be
restarted for the setting to have an effect.)

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