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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-18T22:42:06

On Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:18 UTC, Paul Smedley 
<paul-UOCLKr3wBvhWo+R/V/U2/g< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


This seems to work fine. Thank you.

I have tried using Ghostscript 9.04, and I can print some things that 
won't print with GS 8.71 (CUPS status is "stopped" because of errors 
in GS), however, I get no color with GS 9.04, it is only grayscale.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Paul Smedley — 2012-05-18T07:00:18

bjnp-1.0 - http://smedley.id.au/cups-bjnp-1.0-os2-20120518.zip

On 18/05/12 03:43, Doug Bissett wrote:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-17T18:13:07

On Tue, 15 May 2012 01:41:18 UTC, "Doug Bissett" 
<dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


I am just about scuppered with this. I can get the printer to print 
SOMETIMES. sometimes it won't print. The general error seems to be 
that ghostscript (8.71) can't handle some of the jobs that I want to 
print. For instance, I have a PDF file, produced by printing my eCS 
subscription information to a PDF file (using an earlier Firefox). It 
says that it is PDF-1.2. I can open it in Lucide (1.3.4 GA), and it 
will print. If I use FF 4.0.1 to print to a PDF file, it will print 
plain text (like a page from the eCUPS error log), but if I try to 
print the FF default home page (Google search, with the firefox logo),
it won't print, and seems to have ghostscript errors. Some sample 
messages:
Error: /ioerror in --run--
Last OS error: Socket operation on non-socket
GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!
No %%Pages: comment in header!
Failed to r

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-15T01:41:18

On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 UTC, Paul Smedley 
<paul-UOCLKr3wBvhWo+R/V/U2/g< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Well, I am still making progress, but it is sure slow going.

Test print prints only in gray scale when i try to use Ghostscropt 
9.04. It prints the color part with GS 8.71.

I am now able to print a couple of simple text jobs, with no trouble. 
I can also print a photo from PMView (small size, i don't want to 
waste too much ink, yet). The color is not too bad, but it is 
certainly not 100%.

If I attempt to print from Lotus WordPro, nothing happens, and I find 
that the printer State is stopped. Reprint job seems to try, but it 
ends up stopped again (I will need to study the error log, after I get
some sleep). I can cancel those jobs, and then I can print a multi 
page text file. Then, I printed a page from Lucide, with no trouble.

Closer, but it is still pretty flaky.

BJNP.EXE seems to work okay (it is not very fast, but it works). CUPS 
itself seems to have some pretty serious faults. It is now pos

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Paul Smedley — 2012-05-14T23:24:57

Looks like there is a bjnp v1.0 available at source forge - I will try
build it when I get tine

Cheers,

Paul

Sent from my iPhone

On 15/05/2012, at 8:27 AM, Doug Bissett <dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-14T22:57:26

On Mon, 14 May 2012 03:15:28 UTC, Paul Smedley 
<paul-UOCLKr3wBvhWo+R/V/U2/g< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Not automatic, but I did get it to print using BJNP. Still some things
to work out (color didn't work). I think I may have CUPS so messed up 
that anything is possible. I will completely remove all of it, and 
install again, when i get the time.

I think I am close to making it work, but it has been an uphill battle
all the way.

Thanks again...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Paul Smedley — 2012-05-14T03:15:28

For starters copy bjnp into /cups/lib/cups/backend and try adding a
new printer - it may automatically detect the printer

Cheers,

Paul

Sent from my iPhone

On 14/05/2012, at 11:21 AM, Doug Bissett <dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-14T01:51:29

On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:14:12 UTC, "Doug Bissett" 
<dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Running BJNP.EXE gives me some printer information (looks the same as 
what I get when I run USB.EXE, but I didn't compare them). i didn't 
have the time to actually try to make it work. I am not 100% sure how 
to use it either.

Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-14T01:51:27

On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:14:13 UTC, "Doug Bissett" 
<dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Couldn't get anything to print with the downloaded PPD file.

Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-13T15:14:13

On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:24:10 UTC, Lewis Rosenthal 
<lgrosenthal-ybW5Nk7BWCkiKWLFXdul5Q< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


I found something about it. It basically said just go back to the CUPS
home page, and continue. That seems to work, but you always wonder 
what went wrong.


I will save this for future reference. It seems that Canon uses port 
8611, but it also seems that there are also references to LPT1 etc. 
which would be something different.


It should be. AFAIK, all tat was ever done was to convince the router,
and the printer, to agree on an IP address. Of course, my sister in 
law got a Kobo eReader for mothers day, and getting that thing 
attached seems to have messed up everything else.


The ppd that was generated from gutenprint seems to be fine. It is the
driver that OS/2 sees that doesn't match.


Probably true, but this whole thing should not be that difficult to 
set up.


I will give it a try, but I will be very surprised if it changes 
anything. I am pretty sure that we tried that last year, w

Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-13T15:14:12

On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:57:23 UTC, Paul Smedley 
<paul-UOCLKr3wBvhWo+R/V/U2/g< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


There is a PPD with the proper name (Canon_MP620_series.ppd). I think 
it comes from gutenprint. That seems to work when I do a test print, 
using the USB driver that you suggested. 

There is a printer option for the MP610, in the printer object create 
function (but no MP620), and there is an instuction to use the generic
postscript driver if the specific printer is not listed. There is also
an instruction to use PIN.EXE it import the PPD file, but I haven't 
been able to get that to change anything.  I tried both the MP610, and
generic, selections, but nothing changes. I haven't had time to try 
anything lately.


I will give it a try, and let you know what happens. I am not sure 
when will find time (perhaps shortly, unless something comes up 
unexpectedly).

Thanks...

Re: Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Paul Smedley — 2012-05-13T00:57:23

Hi Guys,

Delayed response as things have been kinda busy at work recently, and 
I've also been busy having a life :)

On 9/05/12 7:18 AM, David McKenna wrote:
Glad the updated libusb helped.  As others have suggested, problems with 
resolution are usually related to using the wrong ppd.

What ppd are you using to print with?

This rings a bell now I think about it - I vaguely remember compiling an 
older build for someone....

found it...

http://smedley.id.au/cups-bjnp-0.5.4-os2-20090919.zip

I don't recall now if I ever got any feedback as to whether it worked or 
not...

Cheers,

Paul

Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Lewis Rosenthal — 2012-05-13T00:24:10

Hey, Doug...

On 05/09/12 01:14 pm, Doug Bissett thus wrote :
<snip>
Hmmm... Sounds like I've seen this before, at some point, under Linux...
port1 refers to the first port in a multi-port print server device. HP 
made several models of these (among other manufacturers), utilizing 
between one and three ports. For s single printer with a built-in print 
server (JetDirect internal, for example), you would use port1. If you 
actually *were* printing to a print server device with multiple printers 
connected, you would select the proper port for the printer you wanted 
(e.g., the print server device would have one LAN connection and three 
parallel ports, each connected to a different printer).

<snip>
It could be disabled or configured for a different port, but 8611 is the 
standard for Canon.
It doesn't sound like it's set to defaults.
Grab a proper ppd for it:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp610linux/files/
A mismatched ppd can do odd things.

<snip>

It sounds like a bad/mismatched ppd. I've found that i

Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-09T17:14:42

On Tue, 8 May 2012 23:05:03 UTC, "Doug Bissett" 
<dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Okay, I have a printer object installed, and it seems to work the 
FIRST time I try to print, after a reboot. Trying to print again 
appears to think that it printed, but the printer does nothing. At the
time, I am seeing high processor usage for a while (one of three 
processors, rotating among them), then it goes back to normal, but 
nothing will print until I reboot.

Any ideas?

Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-08T23:05:03

On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:48:43 UTC, "David McKenna" 
<davidmckenna-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


I found another reference to port 8611, but the printer seems to 
ignore that.

USB is now working, thanks to Paul, but I am not having much luck 
trying to get a printer object installed. I tried the Generic 
Postscript option, since the MP620 was not listed. I can drop a simple
text file on the printer object, select plain text, and it prints. 
Trying again does nothing. Trying to print from Lotus WordPro causes a
system hang (but I have seen that before). I did get Lucide to print a
single page document, as long as it is the first print job.

Enough for today, I will tackle it again tomorrow.

Thanks to all...

Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

David McKenna — 2012-05-08T21:48:43

Doug,

On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:28:35 +0000 (UTC), Doug Bissett wrote:


 This may be helpful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersCanonPrinte
rsCanonMP620

 They talk about setting up with CUPS. They also mention a 'bjnp' backend for
CUPS.... I haven't seen that one before... also it uses port 8611.

Dave McKenna

Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-08T17:28:35

On Tue, 8 May 2012 02:28:08 UTC, Paul Smedley 
<paul-UOCLKr3wBvhWo+R/V/U2/g< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Well, that seems to work. I can now actually print to the printer. The
only resolution that works is 300x300 DPI though (more to test) 
600x600 DPI prints double high, with spaces between each row of dots. 
Still, this is probably usable at 300x300. I am also unable to get to 
the Set Default Options page, except as part of a new printer install.
That is a bit of a PITA. I also get the Error 500 after many of the 
changes.


I may spend a little more time trying to figure that out. It would be 
more convenient to use it that way.


I expect that the slash is a typo, and you mean lpd://192.168.0.106. 
Doesn't work anyway.


It doesn't like port 9100. Ping works to 192.168.0.106. Is there a 
list of ports to try, I searched for information, but it seems to be 
well hidden, or it doesn't exist.

Anyway, I am making progress.  Thanks...

Now, to figure out how to get it to print from the system.

...snip...

Re: Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Paul Smedley — 2012-05-08T02:28:08

Hi Doug,

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Doug Bissett <dougb007!SPAM-EynCeXvFgoheoWH0uzbU5w< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

You could also try http://smedley.id.au/usb.zip - this has some changes to
the libusb backend that helped fix printing to the HP MFP's I have here.


This is OEM dependent and can be a PITA the work out.  HP's tend to always
support socket printing on port 9100 - (ie the HP jetdirect standard) -
most OEM's at least support lpd printing.

I would try lpd://192.179/0.106

You could try telnet to that IP on the respective ports for LPD, socket,
etc to check if the device is listening on that IP.

Cheers,

Paul

Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-08T01:32:44

On Mon, 7 May 2012 22:49:39 UTC, Pete Brown 
<losepete-XZoyATsUNX5Wk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


If I leave the USB connected, I don't get any options but to use the 
USB connection, which refuses to work. When the USB is disconnected, 
I, sometimes, but not always, get other network printer, options. I 
have tried:
ipp://192.168.0.106/ipp/
ipp://192.168.0.106/ipp/port1
http://localhost:631/ipp/
http://localhost:631/ipp/port1
lpd://192.168.0.106
socket://192.168.0.106
socket://192.168.0.106:9100

Of course, I can find no clue about what it means by "port1". There is
some indication that it might mean LPT1, but that doesn't change 
anything.

The http options seem to hint that localhost is right, and using 
the192.168.0.106 appears to time out.

The port 9100 on the socket seems to be a default, but I can find 
nothing about that anywhere else.

FWIW, I can get the Canon i960 to print (incorrectly, and through a 
USB connection), so I think the software is installed properly. My 
main problem is that

Re: Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Pete Brown — 2012-05-07T22:49:39

Hi Doug

Doug Bissett wrote:



Try removing the usb connection and setting cups to use the ip address 
instead via socket eg socket://192.168.0.106

Probably the asy way to do this is to edit \cups\etc\cups\printers.conf 
and change the DeviceURI line from the usb connection to the above 
socket connection.

I think you then need to kill and restart cupsd.exe

Regards

Pete

Canon MP620 with eCUPS

Doug Bissett — 2012-05-07T18:38:52

I am trying to get a Canon MP620 to work with eCS. I got what seems to
be the proper packages, and installed them with WarpIn (after removing
all traces of an older version of CUPS, which printed, but not 
properly).

I can configure the printer using a USB connection, but I am not able 
to print the test page. The indication is that it cannot transfer data
to the printer. I updated to the 1.5.1 version of the USB.EXE, and it 
does "see" the printer. Whether that returned data is correct, I don't
know.

Anyway, this thing also has WiFi, which is configured, and responds to
192.168.0.106. I have tried about every possibility to get it 
configured (including disconnecting the USB, but I have no idea what 
it really wants, and the setup help doesn't help.

Going to the Administration sometimes lists 5 options, but most of the
time, it just says "no printers found".

How do I make this work?