[Bug 584473] New: Cannot configure CUPS with HP Laserjet Parallel Printer
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584473 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584473#c0 Summary: Cannot configure CUPS with HP Laserjet Parallel Printer Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: RC 1 Platform: i586 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Printing AssignedTo: jsmeix@novell.com ReportedBy: parkerc@eskimo.com QAContact: jsmeix@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) CUPS graphic setup cannot configure a local parallel port HP Laserjet printer. Printer is a Laserjet 3 connected to a local parallel port. The printer is created successfully but will not print. Error message "Server not found". Kernel modules parport and parport_pc are both loaded. Devices parport0 and lp0 both appear in /dev. Using command # cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 produces some text output from the printer. I can ping localhost 127.0.0.1. I used socket://localhost:631 for my URI in the CUPS setup along with HPLIP. Actual driver selection for HP Laserjet 3 is unclear, but there are about 4 different drivers listed. Suspect that ownership of /dev/lp0 and /dev/parport0 may be incorrect. User and Root do not belong to group "lp" by default. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use CUPS graphic configuration tool 2.Set up HP Laserjet 3 printer using HPLIP and any LJ 3 driver listed in database 3.Printer is set up successfully, but does not print test page. Error message after timeout, "cannot connect to localhost" or "server not found" Actual Results: No printing, CUPS times out. Expected Results: Normal printing of test page or other document. The latest version of HPLIP listed on the HP website does not even list the Laserjet 3 (support docs begin with Laserjet 4). HPLIP web site suggests that file permissions and group assignment may be at fault. LJ3 drivers listed in the .ppd file database are "Gutenprint with PCL5" or "Foomatic, suggested". Unclear as to which drivers might apply to lp0 parallel printing. The LJ 3 does use PCL5. Dowload of latest HPLIP autoinstallation package fails due to many missing dependencies, even though HPLIP already exists on the system. CUPS error log does not point to a specific problem. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584473 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584473#c1 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2010-03-02 08:28:18 UTC --- A URI "socket://localhost:631" cannot work at all. The issue is invalid for us because there is no bug in the software but it was caused by misconfiguration. For the right CUPS DeviceURI to access a printer which is connected to the first parallel port is parallel:/dev/lp0 have a look at "The Backends " in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell In the CUPS web interface you may therefore select something like "LPT #1". To set up HP printers with HP's driver software HPLIP it is recommended to run as root their setup tool hp-setup -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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