Re: `Filter failed' no print error message
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>> > "UnifiedLinuxDriver" indicates a package downloaded from
>> >
>> > http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/
>> >
>> > But there is no version 1.02 offered by this site, See here
>> >
>> > http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/suld.html
>> >
>> > Copying the PPD and filter is ok. But what file did you copy them from?
>> > UnifiedLinuxDriver_1.02.tar.gz is not offered by the bchemnet.com site.
>> >
>> > Have you got that, too. The file you say you downloaded does not exist
>> > at bchemnet.com as far as I can see.
>>
>>
>> I downloaded - years ago, when I bought the printer - from:
>>
>> http://www.samsung.com
>
> You were asked from where you got the package a couple of mails ago. I
> should have insisted you answer rather than guessing from a file name.
>
> Your best strategy is to download the latest package from Samsung
> instead of using something ancient.
>From Samsung web site I don't find that package...
> Alternatively, changing
>
> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 rastertosamsungspl"
>
> to
>
> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertosamsungspl"
>
> just might work.
Unfortunately, it doesn't...
>> . With those two files, the printer had always worked fine with Debian.
>> Now I installed Debian on a new machine, and the printer won't print.
>> Strange because the old machine, where the printer still does work, *also*
>> has Debian Sid, the same operating system I have on my new Lenovo AMD A6
>> Desktop.
>>
>>
>> > Whatever package you are using is expecting rastertosamsungspl to process
>> > PostScript. As its name implies, it will only process raster data. CUPS
>> > will not like this line.
>> >
>> > Please post
>> >
>> > cat Samsung_ML-191x_252x_Series.ppd | grep cupsFilter
>> >
>> > for the machine which prints for you. Check the PPD file name in
>> > /etc/cups.ppd first.
>>
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 rastertosamsungspl"
>>
>> , but exactly the same output also comes from Lenovo machine, where the
>> printer
>> won't work... So I think there must be some other different special reason
>> because one is ok and the other is not although the system is the same on
>> both.
>
> I very much doubt the filtering on both machines is identical. The
> error_log you posted for the non-working machine had
>
> D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 4741)
> D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 4742)
> D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl
>
> PostScript is being produced. There is no pstoraster filter in unstable's
> cups-filters package to give raster data to rastertosamsungspl.
>
> Please run
>
> cupsfilter --list-filters -p /etc/cups/ppd/<ML-191x_ppd> -m printer/foo
> <input> -e > out.prn 2> log
>
> on both machines. A PDF or a text file would do for <input>. Post the
> two logs you get.
I suppose you mean something like:
# cupsfilter --list-filters -p /etc/cups/ppd/Samsung_ML-191x_252x_Series.ppd -m printer/foo <input> -e > out.prn 2> log
, but what in place of `printer/foo' and <input>?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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