Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) v1.3.11

Problems and successes with specific brands/models of printers
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#31 Post by dalderton »

Will any version of Cups work on SPUP 451 . I have tried a few versions and cannot get to the manager on Localhost:631, Tried the startups mentioned on Slackware sites still no go .I like the puppy version but it is no use if you cannot print.
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#32 Post by ttuuxxx »

dalderton wrote:Will any version of Cups work on SPUP 451 . I have tried a few versions and cannot get to the manager on Localhost:631, Tried the startups mentioned on Slackware sites still no go .I like the puppy version but it is no use if you cannot print.
Regards Dennis
I know just enough about this stuff to know how much I dont know.!!!!!!
cups is really just a bloated gui, the real workhorse is gutenprint, what you probably need is a updated version of guten print or some printer driver compiled for your pc, in some cases. You would probably be better to ask in the Spup forum thread just in case the developer overlooks this thread.
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#33 Post by dalderton »

Tuuxxx
Thanks for the reply, I posted on the Spup thread a couple of days ago but I think that "Plaguedogs has moved on .Also it does seem that Cups is a bit of a specialist game.I have had a look at Patriots Unix epistle and tried his modular version but the same problem occurs .Looking at the Slackware stuff it seems to have its own problems and maybe the combination of Puppy and Slackware and Cups is not so easy to operate.
Its all interesting stuff. I wish I understood it better.
Regards Dennis

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#34 Post by ttuuxxx »

dalderton wrote:Tuuxxx
Thanks for the reply, I posted on the Spup thread a couple of days ago but I think that "Plaguedogs has moved on .Also it does seem that Cups is a bit of a specialist game.I have had a look at Patriots Unix epistle and tried his modular version but the same problem occurs .Looking at the Slackware stuff it seems to have its own problems and maybe the combination of Puppy and Slackware and Cups is not so easy to operate.
Its all interesting stuff. I wish I understood it better.
Regards Dennis
whats the make and model of your printer and did your printer work on other puppies like 2.14X which has cups from 5 series I think I went with.
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#35 Post by mikeb »

The older version might need localhost:631/admin or even your (machine ip):631/admin...version 1.1.13 that is....is cupsd running if you look at htop/top...not all puppies start cups automatically....
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start
or
/etc/init.d/cups start

With the newer cups (1.3 like from this thread ) usually the interface comes up fine but it is more fussy when it comes to permissions.

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#36 Post by dalderton »

Thanks again for the replies.My printer is HP5550 usb printer and I have had no problems with using it on any Puppy version in the last year or two until I tried Spup . Even Gutenprint drivers are working at a respectable speed these days.I have tried the various cups start codes from these threads and also Slackware printing info without success Interestingly the process does not get to the normal Purple Box that when clicked leads to the Cups screen at http://localhost:631/ Very strange business. Also for some reason the ePDF viewer does not work on Spup. Still a work in progress I think. Dpup is OK ,most things work alright but it suffers from periodic freeze ups which require rebooting twice to get it going again.A bit of a pain in the bum.
Ah well,back to the stock model for a while and monitor developments.
regards Dennis

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#37 Post by ttuuxxx »

maybe try
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 1-pup4.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 1-pup4.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ps1123.pet

when testing things like this you should first boot up puppy with
puppy pfix=ram
so you don't mess up your current settings
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#38 Post by dalderton »

Tuuxxx
I will have a look at those.I dont use puppy from the CD.I have several hard disks in trays and swap them around. The one I am on now has a 4.3.1 standard pup 2* dpups and currently 1 spup. I use opera on all of them so I can move the profile folder between partitions and all other stuff in a Stuff Folder that I can shift easily as well. It is so easy to install Puppy that I do it rather than using the frugal option.One of the partitions always has stuff that I want to hold on to and the others are to play with.
Strangely I put one of your Puppy versions on an hour or so ago with your modified Cups setup and it would not see the HP5550. Odd .
Incidentally for ebook downloads on Adobe Digital Editions I had to install Windows XP on one of my Hard Disks and had forgotten what a pain it is.I took over an hour to get it done.YUK! Waste of Disk space but I could not get ADE to work on Linux.
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#39 Post by ttuuxxx »

dalderton wrote:Tuuxxx
I will have a look at those.I dont use puppy from the CD.I have several hard disks in trays and swap them around. The one I am on now has a 4.3.1 standard pup 2* dpups and currently 1 spup. I use opera on all of them so I can move the profile folder between partitions and all other stuff in a Stuff Folder that I can shift easily as well. It is so easy to install Puppy that I do it rather than using the frugal option.One of the partitions always has stuff that I want to hold on to and the others are to play with.
Strangely I put one of your Puppy versions on an hour or so ago with your modified Cups setup and it would not see the HP5550. Odd .
Incidentally for ebook downloads on Adobe Digital Editions I had to install Windows XP on one of my Hard Disks and had forgotten what a pain it is.I took over an hour to get it done.YUK! Waste of Disk space but I could not get ADE to work on Linux.
Regards Dennis.
Here's a tip for next time you want ADE Ubuntu/linux way, should also work on puppy :)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=701191
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#40 Post by Patriot »

Hmmm .....
dalderton wrote:Will any version of Cups work on SPUP 451 . I have tried a few versions and cannot get to the manager on Localhost:631, .....
Only did a brief peek at spup451 ... cups is in there and I believe it's a slax's cups-1.3.9 ... the web docs are probably not installed along with several cups utils ... but it should still be working from cli ...

To have web gui access, you'll need the web docs ... get it below (or strip it from the cups-1.3.9 pet) ... btw, the reason why cups pets on this thread doesn't seem to work on spup is due to the missing unzip util in spup (only needed during installs) ... It has zip but no unzip .....


Rgds

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#41 Post by dalderton »

Patriot I assume that by web gui you mean the Printer manager at http://localhost:631
I will reinstall Spup and try your pet.
I just loaded installed Slaxer and everything I have tried so far worked without problems.
I will post result at a later time.
Regards Denis.

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#42 Post by dalderton »

Patriot RULES the world of CUPS.
Bingo I downloaded the pet and installed it and it works like a charm .I had to use the Password setup but I remembered them from other posts and all is well.
I wonder how it got missed in the Spup setup. Thanks to all who contributed to the solution to the problem,Patriot for the solution and the others for taking the time to help a geriatric trier.
Regards Dennis.

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#43 Post by dalderton »

Patriot RULES the world of CUPS.
Bingo I downloaded the pet and installed it and it works like a charm .I had to use the Password setup but I remembered them from other posts and all is well.
I wonder how it got missed in the Spup setup. Thanks to all who contributed to the solution to the problem,Patriot for the solution and the others for taking the time to help a geriatric trier.
Regards Dennis.

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#44 Post by mikeb »

Should the maker of SPUP be told there are bits miissing?

mike

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CUPS installed, but no printouts

#45 Post by matthewm1970 »

Patriot, thank you for the excellent instructions and packaging. You rock for sharing such detailed work with the community!

I now have a reasonably functioning CUPS installation (at least, it lets me administer, add printers, etc. via the web interface!) which is more than I've had before. I've installed CUPS, ghostscript, the libtif package, and foomatic-rip (which is required by my driver).

Unfortunately, although jobs go through CUPS ok, they end up immediately on the "completed" queue, but nothing ever happens on the printer (Dell 1100, via USB). No printout, no lights flash, nothing. at all. I've tried with both the Samsung ML 1000 and Samsung ML 1510 drivers, which are specified for this printer in other forums around the net.

I used to have this working under another variant of Puppy, and still do have it working on this machine under the OS X boot, so I know it's not hardware. This is Browserlinux, a variant of Puppy 4.31.

Any suggestions? I'm stumped at this point. Thanks in advance for any pointers!
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#46 Post by rcrsn51 »

I've installed CUPS, ghostscript, the libtif package, and foomatic-rip (which is required by my driver).
I take it that all of these items are missing from Browserlinux?

The various parts of the CUPS printing chain need to be installed correctly as a group or the process fails. I would suggest that you get a standard Puppy like 4.3.1 and upgrade CUPS from here.

Once you have your printer working in that environment, you can go back to Browserlinux and try again.

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v. large /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat

#47 Post by petr7 »

Hi all,
I've tried following the instructions :-)

v1.3.11 of CUPS on puppy 4.3 and I still can't add a local printer.

the /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat file grows to 142.4 Meg - i can add the HP LaserJet, but it won't print the test page. Try to change the driver to one of the other two that match the printer and I get 100% cpu on the cups daemon.

Without a printer for a month now :oops:

Petr

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#48 Post by rcrsn51 »

This sounds like some kind of corruption. I would do a fresh frugal install of Puppy 4.3.1 and following the instructions here.

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#49 Post by petr7 »

I guess fresh install means more than replacing the initrd, pup431 and vmlinuz files as any problems will just get copied over in my pupsave file.

Thanks for the guidance though - far better to know I need to start again rather than trying to fix it.

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#50 Post by rcrsn51 »

If you are already using a frugal install, boot off the Live CD using the "puppy pfix=ram" argument.

Rename your current pupsave file to something else and start a new one.

Do the printer upgrades into the new pupsave file.

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