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Posted: **Wed 30 Dec 2009, 04:54**

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.

Posted: **Wed 30 Dec 2009, 05:20**

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.

Posted: **Wed 30 Dec 2009, 05:27**

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.

Posted: **Wed 30 Dec 2009, 12:44**

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

mike

Posted: **Thu 01 Apr 2010, 17:46**

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!
-Matthew

Posted: **Thu 01 Apr 2010, 18:19**

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.

Posted: **Mon 26 Apr 2010, 08:21**

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

Petr

Posted: **Mon 26 Apr 2010, 12:48**

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

Posted: **Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:16**

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.

Petr

Posted: **Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:21**

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.

Posted: **Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:48**

petr7: You didnt mention what kind of HP Laserjet you have. My HP Laserjet 1020 works fine with most CUPS versions after foo2xxx_r220909-0.0-i486.pet installation. It has drivers for certain HP Laserjet versions. It also creates hotplugin folder which is needed at least for my printer. Firmware must be feeded to HP Laserjet 1020 printer with every printing and this package creates that.

Check here supported printers with this driver package: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/

Posted: **Tue 27 Apr 2010, 11:29**

Printer is now working fine... now lets see what happens when I copy over my home directory ....

BTW I had, at one point, a pdf writer on this machine. CUPS detects it but I don't see how to choose a "make" for it, and I thought I had to download a pet to get it last time.

Petr

Posted: **Tue 27 Apr 2010, 12:24**

CUPS 1.3.11 has a little trouble setting up the old Puppy PDF-Writer device. Initially, just pick any Generic PCL driver. Then go to Modify Printer. Now pick Raw and Raw Queue as the make and model.

For some reason, CUPS won't print a test page to this device. But I tried it with several applications and it worked OK.

Posted: **Sat 08 May 2010, 07:22**

Hi rcrsn51,
many thanks for all your job !
SOLVED
[edited] I went just to solve this ! it is trivial:
- puppy has to be rebooted with pixma (or any usb device, I presume) already switched ON -

Wanting to install a Canon pixma MP160 on...Turbopup-Xtreme-v.1.0 (=puppy 4.20 derivative !):

I first apply your advice installing cups-1.3.9 + cupsd.conf.zip...OK!
Now I get a try installing my USB Canon Pixma MP160 Printer from CUPS...but cannot find the 'usb' among the list of communication devices (see snapshot attached).
I ran

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# lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
file pdf-writer:/dev/null
direct scsi
serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
network smb
#

These Pixma is already running as scanner on sane using the usb port...

So, what to do to get the usb device identified on cups ?

Many thanks for any answer

cheers, Charlie

[edited] after reboot:

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# lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
direct usb://Canon/MP160      <<<<< there it is !
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
file pdf-writer:/dev/null
direct scsi
serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
network smb
#

Posted: **Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:21**

Di we need a special version of fooxxx for HP printers under Fatdog64?

Posted: **Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:14**

I am new so let me know if my post should go somewhere else.

I just updated cups to the latest version on my puppeee install and I have a new problem. When I try to print, it says:

"Unable to open file "/var/spool/cups/d00002-001" - Permission denied"

I tried changing the permissions as it was suggested in another thread, but I still get the same error. I also confirmed it was installed as root.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Posted: **Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:25**

You want to be sure that Jemimah sees this so I'd post in a Puppeee or Fluppy 010 thread.

Posted: **Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:59**

edoc wrote:You want to be sure that Jemimah sees this so I'd post in a Puppeee or Fluppy 010 thread.

I just posted in the puppeee forum where Jemimah is active, so we'll see.

Thanks.

Posted: **Fri 10 Jun 2011, 08:01**

do these drivers work with the later puplets suck and lupu or wary.

they work in 431 i know that

edit i have started a post here [http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68740

Posted: **Fri 10 Jun 2011, 09:09**

HiDeHo wrote:do these drivers work with the later puplets suck and lupu or wary.

Have you read the sticky post at the start of the Printers section?

It's titled: How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Lupu/Quirky/Wary.

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Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) v1.3.11

CUPS installed, but no printouts

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