Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

[Rob Hurle <rob1940@gmail.com>]

Thanks for all the help:

On 4 October 2010 04:31, Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com> wrote:
> On 2010-10-03T13:25:58, Allan Wind wrote:
>> I would encourage you to push on getting to lpd.  Here is what we
>> use at work:
>>
>> lpd://192.168.1.4/port1
>>
>> You might have explicitly set the PPD after changing the
>> connection.
>
> Try run nmap against the printer to see which ports are
> available:
>
> nmap $ip
>
> where $ip is the IP address of your printer.  You will probably
> need to install nmap first (`aptitude install nmap`).  It will
> tell if you there is any connectivity issues.  lpd is port 515,
> ipp is 631 etc (see /etc/services).

I installed nmap and had a look at the printer.  It is listening to
ports 21, 80, 427 (srvlock) and 9100 (jetdirect), all TCP.  Port 9100
is not in /etc/services and I'm not sure if this is significant.  I've
added it to see what happens.

  In response to another suggestion, there is no postscript module for
this printer as it uses CAPT, the Canon printer driver.  The software
provided by Canon puts "pstocapt3" in /usr/lib/cups/filter.  I notice
that there is a report of /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt3 and
/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket both being killed by a 9 signal in
/var/log/kern.log.  I wonder what this means?

Rob Hurle

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