Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"
On Wed 22 Jun 2016 at 15:21:45 +0000, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Emanuel Berg wrote:
> > printer laser now printing laser-528. enabled since Wed 22 Jun 2016
> > 16:42:55 CEST
> > Filter failed
> >
>
> Seems the input (or output) filter failed. You'll likely need to check
> if it's trying to call any 32-bit libraries (my brother does this), and
> add the relevant i386 support for them.
I think this happens because the Brother debs are not real debs but RPM
packages converted with alien.
> Although, the error is vague, and there's not much context -- another
> fix could simply be getting the latest hplip (if you don't already have
> it).
"Filter failed" is pretty clear.
The Jessie hplip is good enough. In fact, printer-driver-hpcups is all
that's needed.
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