https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688614 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688614#c31 Gordon Dickens <gordon@dickens.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gordon@dickens.com --- Comment #31 from Gordon Dickens <gordon@dickens.com> 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 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.