Hi, I am running Debian Unstable and my computer is hooked up to the school network. We just got a new printer here (a HP ColorJet 4700, really nice I think, if I could get it to work correctly) and the spool that the school provides is not working correctly. So I tried to talk to the printer directly through CUPS. I installed the HPLIP package and set up the printer through the web interface of CUPS and printed out a test page. Hurrayyy, it worked! But as soon as I tried to print out a postscript or pdf (or anything else for that matter) from a command line nothing happened, the command line didnt recognise the printer I had just put up. I tried lpstat -t and it didnt find my printer that I had set up with CUPS. Can anyone here help me out and tell me what I can do to get the printer to work (without talking to the sysadmin, they are not to responsive). Regards Oli
Well, the /var/log/cups/error.log contains the following text: I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] Listening to 0:631 D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] AddLocation: added location '/' D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] DenyIP: / deny 00000000/00000000 D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] AllowIP: / allow 7f000001/ffffffff D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] AddLocation: added location '/jobs' D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] AddLocation: added location '/admin' D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] DenyIP: /admin deny 00000000/00000000 D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] AllowIP: /admin allow 7f000001/ffffffff I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] Full reload is required. D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] LoadAllPrinters: Loading printer ojs... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "ipp"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "http"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:34 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "lpd"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "parallel:/dev/lp0"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "socket"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp1"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp2"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp3"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp4"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp5"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp6"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp7"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp8"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp9"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp10"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp11"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp12"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp13"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp14"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "usb:/dev/usb/lp15"... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadDevices: Added device "hp:/no_device_found".. . I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadPPDs: Read "/var/lib/cups/ppds.dat", 885 PPDs ... I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] LoadAllJobs: Scanning /var/spool/cups... I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] Full reload complete. D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] StartListening: NumListeners=1 D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] StartListening: address=00000000 port=631 D [23/Feb/2006:10:19:35 +0000] ResumeListening: setting input bits... I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:48 +0000] Added remote printer "AdobePDF7"... I [23/Feb/2006:10:19:57 +0000] Added remote printer "_172_20_1_21"... As you can see then it says "LoadAllPrinters: Loading printer ojs..." which is the printer I defined with CUPS but when I try to print to it using "lp -dojs filename.ps" then it gives me "lp: unable to print file: client-error-not-found" The access.log and page.log files contain no information. In my cups.confd I have the LogLevel set to debug. Regards Oli
What are the command line option you have for the command lp? Maybe you can explicitely specify your printer there.
Umm, Im not sure what you mean here. You mean the command line options that are available to me or the command line option that I use when I type the lp command? Well, the command line options available to me are just the standard CUPS command line options on a Debian unstable box (shouldnt be any different then on any other box). The comand line option that I use when typing the lp command is just -dojs where -d specifies the destination of the spool to use and ojs is the name of the spool I created with the CUPS web interface. So the full command line is lp -dojs somefile.ps Thanks for your help by the way, I havnt had much success in getting help anywhere else, even on the CUPS forums. Oli
