https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688614
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Gordon Dickens changed:
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--- Comment #31 from Gordon Dickens 2011-12-25 20:42:15 UTC ---
I realize that this bug has been closed, however, I have evidence that this is
an OpenSUSE problem and not an upstream hplip problem. I am indeed having these
problems with my OpenSUSE systems, however, these problems do not exist with my
two CentOS systems on the exact same network with my HP 8500 A910 printer.
Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is not an upstream problem
but a problem with the OpenSUSE implementation.
Here is a summary of what I have found along with a work-around solution:
The hpijs driver does not work at all for printing in OpenSUSE. You get the
following errors in /var/log/cups/error_log with the hpijs driver:
[Job 118] prnt/hpijs/hpijs.cpp 638: unable to open PrintContext object err=2
[Job 118] GPL Ghostscript 9.00: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"
[Job 118] **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
[Job 118] renderer exited with status 1
[Job 118] Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check
options.kid3 exited with status 3
[Job 118] Process is dying with "Error closing renderer
This hpijs driver works fine with a slightly older version of CUPS (1.3.7) and
hplip (3.10.6) on my CentOS 5.7 machines so I think this is somehow related to
OpenSUSE's implementation of CUPS (version 1.5.0) or hplip (3.11.10).
As an FYI, my work-around solution for this problem was to use the hpcups
driver for printing. However, then I found a problem with the hpcups driver.
That is, the hpcups driver will not print some images such as FedEx or UPS
barcodes. So, I solved all this by setting up the printer configuration
directly from the CUPS interface at http://localhost:631/printers with a socket
driver. I setup the printer's network address as: socket://<Printer IP
Address>:9100. This is my driver for printing since it will print everything
including barcode images, however, it will not work for xsane scanning. So, I
then setup another printer configuration for scanning using the hpcups driver.
While this is quite a kluge of a solution it does work to get my OpenSUSE
system printing and scanning. That is,I have one printer config for printing
and another printer config for scanning.
Also, another solution for OpenSUSE users is to setup NetBIOS/Samba network
printing to work through another networked system OS such as CentOS, Windows,
etc where the hpijs driver works for all printing including barcode images,
etc. On my networks, all printing, including image printing, work great through
my CentOS print servers.
FYI,
Gordon
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