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Printing issues
I have been banging my head against the wall in trying to get printing working. This has only been tested under Ubuntu 12.04, as I have not had access to a Windows machine. I attempted to add a LJ Deskjet 4200 series. I added ppd to /usr/share/cups/model and also made sure that I had all of the PPD on the Ubuntu machine. When I attempt to add a printer, it does actually find the printer, but it fails to load the driver from the nv+. If I try and add the 4200 series locally, it seems to take, but when I attempt to print a test page, it fails.
The following is the latest except from my /var/log/cups/error_log:
I [15/May/2012:04:46:32 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
I [15/May/2012:04:46:32 -0400] Printer 'CB637A' modified by ''.
E [15/May/2012:04:53:33 -0400] ReadClient() 2 IPP Read Error!
E [15/May/2012:04:56:24 -0400] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] Listening to 0:631
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 685 PPDs...
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
E [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] AddCert: Unable to create certificate file /etc/
cups/certs/0 - No such file or directory
E [15/May/2012:01:56:35 -0700] AddCert: Unable to create certificate file /etc/
cups/certs/2823 - No such file or directory
I [15/May/2012:01:56:35 -0700] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=2
823)
E [15/May/2012:01:56:35 -0700] PID 2823 stopped with status 2!
Any pointers on how I can get my little linux box printing?
The following is the latest except from my /var/log/cups/error_log:
I [15/May/2012:04:46:32 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
I [15/May/2012:04:46:32 -0400] Printer 'CB637A' modified by ''.
E [15/May/2012:04:53:33 -0400] ReadClient() 2 IPP Read Error!
E [15/May/2012:04:56:24 -0400] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] Listening to 0:631
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 685 PPDs...
I [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
E [15/May/2012:01:56:25 -0700] AddCert: Unable to create certificate file /etc/
cups/certs/0 - No such file or directory
E [15/May/2012:01:56:35 -0700] AddCert: Unable to create certificate file /etc/
cups/certs/2823 - No such file or directory
I [15/May/2012:01:56:35 -0700] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=2
823)
E [15/May/2012:01:56:35 -0700] PID 2823 stopped with status 2!
Any pointers on how I can get my little linux box printing?
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- Can you specify the model/driver locally and print to an smb share?
On mine with a hp 2300, I print to:
\\nas\hp_LaserJet_
or
smb://nas/hp_LaserJet_
I needed that trailing underscore. I think it pulls that from the usb device name. - Yes, it is a Deskjet D4260. As I said, I have drivers both on my local laptop as well as the latest, greatest on the nv+
- I only have an ubuntu 10.x box here to play with but I went to administration, then printing, added a printer, choose network, selected windows, I entered the smb:// style URI I listed earlier, specified a user/pass, specified my printer type and it printed a test page.
URI for SMB printer share on nas: smb://nas/hp_LaserJet_ - Thanks, that was the solution... I had been using the network found connection, and that continued to fail. Also, another problem is that the printer name was some funky name (As opposed to a simple dj_4260 or something like that). When I used a simple smb connection, and added a username and password (in the case, admin, although I would rather add users to cupsd.conf and be able to specify use), I finally received my first test print. Thanks you for your pointers!
- Glad it worked out for you. The weird share name bugs me too. I think its generating a name based on the USB device name the OS gets back from the printer.
- Of course there is no way to plug in a more recent CUPS with true administrator control on the nv+, correct?
- It may be possible but you won't get much help on this forum, they're really paranoid about modifying the OS here. It might be as simple as running "apt-get update" then "apt-get update cups" but I'm just theorizing and haven't tried any of this. It might break your nas too. As long as you're prepared to do a factory reset if anything goes wrong, a little experimenting never hurt anyone :)
- Same problem my side; in my Ubuntu also printers are not working. They Have many problems which i never judge. Please help?
______________________________________ - Hey guys, I wanted to let you know that I found a solution to this.
Use the "ipp14" CUPS backend - when you specify the readyNAS print queue's address, use the "ipp14://" scheme instead of "ipp://"
More information (Ubuntu relevant but mostly about CUPS):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/992982/comments/65
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