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Importing PPD file with "Printer driver import utility" is a no go.

Ben Dragon — 2013-05-13T15:00:53

I have been trying to import a *.ppd file from a windows drive for my printer which is a 

Konica Minolta bizhub C352

Whenever I run the "Printer driver import utility" the debug window pops up with; 

[2J[2J[2J[2J[2JError on line 1 of I:\TMP\PPD_4345\PPDENC.EXE:
  Invalid item name "MZP"



There is a minimized cmd window in the task bar that says to hit spacebar... a few times, 
then the program does nothing... except put new messages in the debug window. Eventually 
another minimized cmd window appears in the task bar with similar messages. 

In another window is displayed:

"Merging EAs ...
Validating PPD encoding ..."


After enough spacebars are pressed I get:


"  UNKNOWN COMMAND "C:\CUPS"

Importing PostScript Printer Definitions ..."


Then


"  Unknown command "ppd"


No printers were imported.

Select "OK" to close this window"



This problem looks similar to the MMPM installer errors that relates to a long standing 
problem with REXX being unable to correctly read volume labels of a drive.

Print from CUPS to CUPS

David McKenna — 2013-04-13T16:51:34

  I have a printer attached to a CUPS server (HP DeskJet 990C with HPLIP)
that works well. I can print from remote eCS clients to the server using a
CUPS output port on the printer object.

  Now I need to have CUPS installed locally on the clients (for QT and Java
apps). I need to be able to print to the local CUPS and have that sent to the
CUPS running on the server with the printer. I have tried setting up the CUPS
printer on the clients using the ipp:// backend, but trying to print the test
page just hangs 'processing page 1' forever, and no print job gets to the
server. Trying the http:// backend always results in 'http backend failed'
messages.

  Has anyone been able to do this successfully? If so, are there any special
settings required? I'm using the latest CUPS 1.4.8 on all machines.

TIA,

Dave McKenna

paper tray selection

2013-04-02T19:16:10

Canon MP540, latest cups from netlabs.

If I print directly from the printer (cleaning or alignment) the printer
will use the cassette (the tray under the printer). Whgatever I select as
paper source in the cups default options (automatic paper source
switching, rear tray or cassette), the printer will try to use the empty
rear tray. I had a look at the ppd, and when I change the setting in the
cups default options these settings do get adjusted in the ppd. Still,
they seem to be ignored and the printer is told to use the rear tray.

The work around is easy, put paper in the rear tray:-) I'd rather have the
settuing work so I can use different paper sizes.
 
Cheers, Bjorn.

connection local espus to remote ecups server

Michael Holzapfel — 2013-02-24T13:30:05

Hi all,

since qpdf 0.4.0 is out, the question becomes more evident. Qt apps 
require a local cups-installation (probably default on eCS 2.2). But I 
do not want to configure several eCS-workstations with all printers via 
a local cups server. So my idea is to use local cups-daomon as a 
forwarder to the cups server. This is a method, which runs for all 
pm-based apps very well (via ECUPS generic postcript printer and CUPS 
output port).

Any suggestins how to achieve this with upcoming (qt-) apps which  are 
only relying on cups.dll?

Thanks in advance
Michael

WPI installers updated

Alex Taylor — 2013-02-05T17:29:50

With Adrian's help I finally got my various access problems to NetLabs
sorted out.

I've uploaded new WPI installers for CUPS, Gutenprint, HPLIP, SpliX and
my CUPS GUI wizard.  They're in ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/ecups/install
or from the CupsPort wiki page on Trac.

cups-1.4.8-os2-20121221 problems

Pete Brown — 2013-01-27T22:40:39

Hi

Having updated my cups installation using the above package I decided to 
try creating a new printer rather than simply copying my previous cups 
configuration files.

I started Seamonkey and attempted to change some settings.

Having clicked "Change settings" I am rewarded with a page that shows:-

500 Internal Server Error


Interestingly when I go back to http://localhost:631/admin and click 
"Change Settings" - *after* the above 500 Internal Server Error - I get 
this message:-

The server was not restarted because no changes were made to the 
configuration...

and then the page changes to this:-

500 Internal Server Error


As the above happens every time I try to save changed settings I think 
there is a problem.



I tried the "Add Printer" routine.

That was a failure - I see the following *without* any radio buttons:-


Local Printers: 
Discovered Network Printers: 
Other Network Printers:


There is also a Continue button but clicking on that simply reloads the 
current page.


I also tried t

CUPSWIZ version 0.96 released

Alex Taylor — 2012-11-06T17:52:31

eCups printer creation wizard version 0.96 has been released.
 
http://www.altsan.org/os2/printing/#cupswiz
 
I've come to the conclusion that RINSTPRN is an irredeemable piece
of crap.  Consquently, I've now managed to eliminate the need for 
it entirely.  This hopefully fixes problems that several users
encountered.  (I have at least two success reports, albeit one of 
which is myself, so it looks promising.)

Other changes in this release:
 - Implemented smarter logic to locate the CUPS PPD file in the event
   that it has to be imported into the OS/2 printer driver (ECUPS.DRV
   etc).  This should enable it to work better with recent versions of
   Gutenprint that don't include static PPDs.
 - Some minor UI adjustments.
 - Bug fixes.


I'm going to add CUPSWIZ to my eCups WarpIN distribution, as I think 
it's now reached the point where it's generally useful.

Testing gutenprint 5.2.9

Mat Nieuwenhoven — 2012-10-28T16:57:20

Hi,

I deleted the \gutenprint dirrectory, unzipped Gutenprint 5.2.9, but now I
cannot create printers using localhost:631/admin/ Cups 1.4.8 . No list of
printers is shown. Also Alex's CupsWiz doesn't show a list of printers.
If I look in \cups\share\cups\model\gutenprint\5.2\c I see a lot of ppz.gz
files, but I think these are not used anymore? Where does cups expect to find
a list of printers?

Mat Nieuwenhoven

Test builds of gutenprint 5.2.9 & HPLIP 3.12.10a

Paul Smedley — 2012-10-28T08:55:50

Hi All,

Test builds of updated printer drivers for gutenprint 5.2.9 and hplip 
3.12.10a are now available.

gutenprint - 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/Gutenprint/gutenprint-5.2.9-os2-2012-10-28.zip/download

hplip 3.12.10a 
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/hplip-3.12.10a-os2-2012-10-28.zip/download

Both tested here with a HP Photosmart 7510

Cheers,

Paul.

New CUPSWIZ release (preview #5)

Alex Taylor — 2012-10-09T00:28:17

eCups printer creation wizard, version 0.95.

http://www.altsan.org/os2/printing/#cupswiz

New this release:
 - Hopefully fixed problem where the printer object just wouldn't be
   created on some systems.  (RINSTPRN just mysteriously refused to
   install the driver in some circumstances.  I've tried to circumvent
   this by installing the driver myself, and only relying on RINSTPRN
   for the device/queue and WPS object creation.)
 - You can now run CUPSWIZ on a system where CUPS isn't installed
   locally, as long as you have a CUPS server on the network.  In
   this case, CUPSWIZ doesn't attempt to talk to CUPS at all, it 
   simply asks you for a CUPS-based PPD for the printer you want
   to create, plus the address of the server and the queue name.
   This mode can be specified by passing /R on the command line;
   the program will also enter this mode automatically (with a
   warning) if a local CUPS server cannot be located.
 - Some minor cosmetic adjustments.

Importing a more recent PPD

Peter Veltmans — 2012-08-28T16:38:57

Hi,

Wonderful job you're doing with eCUPS for OS/2 and eCS !

I am trying to install a Samsung ML-1660 printer. This printer uses a
proprietary printer control language, which is supported by the
Splix-infrastructure.

However, the version of Splix which is currently used by eCUPS is version 1.1.1
(I believe). My printer is not supported in that version. It is however in
version 2.0.0.

My question is if it is all possible to somehow import the PPD-driver file from
Splix version 2.0.0 into the current eCUPS-setup.

Furthermore, how to do so.

Thanks in advance for any help !

Peter

eCUPS & Lucide

David Bongo — 2012-07-17T01:26:02

(Just what I wanted - to start a second ongoing thread.)

This is kind of minor.  I have a PC where eCUPS is working as intended, 
and it (up until this afternoon) seemed to have cured all of the 
printing woes on that PC.

And then my father tried to print a PDF from Lucide - and nothing came 
out.  When I checked the web administrator it showed the printer was 
paused and said under the print job:

"No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!"

I immediately thought Lucide's output to eCUPS was the problem, as the 
documents (4 of them) printed fine with the PCL driver.  I then tried a 
different PDF in Lucide and eCUPS handled it perfectly.

All of which leads me to think that the problem is in the PDF, and not 
Lucide.  As I have no control as to how PDFs sent to me are created, is 
there any possible way to have eCUPS "deal with it" and print it out, or 
at least not freeze the printer.  I mean, I can clean out the jobs, but 
there's no possible way I will ever get him to.  And eCUPS prints much 
nicer than th

eCUPS isn't working on fresh install....

David Bongo — 2012-07-15T03:34:33

OK, I figured it might be best to start a fresh thread.  For any details 
on my previous attempts, see the thread "eCUPS installation & setup 
issue" started about a week ago.

Here's the history in a nutshell:
Core i7, Laserjet4P, 3-4 month old eCS 2.1 installation
CUPS installs, prints test page from web, unable to link to printer 
object.  Combined with other erratic system behavior leads me to just 
starting fresh with a new install.  (I have a spare installation 
partition for migration so it's not a big deal - I can take my time and 
have no downtime.)

Anyways, I do a new install, update some drivers (e.g. AHCI, USB, LIBC, 
GCC core) install CUPS and run Alex Taylor's great CUPSWIZ utility.  It 
tells me that "The Printer 'HP Laserjet 4P' does not appear to be 
supported by the eCUPS driver and no similar models were found.  The 
Generic Postscript Driver will be used for application support."

OK, kind of weird, but whatever.  I go into the web interface to print a 
test page.  It fails, and tells me

Another cupsd test build

Paul Smedley — 2012-07-01T09:28:27

Hi All,

I was talking with Silvan on IRC a couple of weeks ago about my select() 
workaround, and he reminded me of a fix to samba from some years back to 
workaround a problem with setting O_NONBLOCK.

Silvan suggested that this may be the cause of the select() problems 
with cups.

To test this, I've added similar code to that used in samba to all the 
places that the scheduler (ie cupsd) uses fcntl to set O_NONBLOCK.

Test build is attached to http://mantis.smedley.id.au/view.php?id=479 as 
I'm currently on a short vacation, and can't upload to smedley.id.au.

Feedback appreciated :)  The select() workarounds are still in place, 
but hopefully it will avoid some of the:
cupsdDoSelect: select() returned -1... pause and retry select()

errors in error_log

Cheers,

Paul

eCUPS installation & setup issue

David Bongo — 2012-06-23T01:25:10

I'm trying to get eCups set up on a PC with a Laserjet 5L via parallel 
port.  (The standard driver occasionally chokes when printing from 
Seamonkey, and graphics output is terrible.)  The WPI package installs 
fine, and web administrator comes up OK, but when I go to add a printer, 
nothing is available.  I tried a bunch of times (at least 10-20 
attempts) but the LPD option never popped up, and two of the other 4 
network options (IPP and AppSocket, I think) appeared only once each.

The PC has a second OS installation (rescue partition, but also to 
compare SNAP with Panorama and for stuff like this.)  I tried installing 
eCUPS on that.  It went fine.  The first attempt to add a printer did 
not present the LPD option.  The second attempt did.  And I installed it 
and it works great.  It's slower than the native driver, but the 
graphics are noticeably improved.

The only problem is that it outputs an extra blank page at the end of 
the job.  I went into the administration area to check the default 
sett

Error printing testpage

2012-06-18T16:38:26

I can print from applications using cups. The test page won't print
however and neither will jobs sent through Samba. Those all generate the
same error:

D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] Error: /undefined in #CUPS-BANNER
D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] Operand stack:
D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] 
D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] Execution stack:
D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] %interp_exit   .runexec2  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1  
%stopped_push   1846   1   3   %oparray_pop   1845   1   3   %oparray_pop  
1829   1   3   %oparray_pop   1723   1   3   %oparray_pop  
--nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] Dictionary stack:
D [18/Jun/2012:18:29:50 -0100] [Job 15] --dict:1157/1684(ro)(G)--  
--dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)-

Gutenprint 5.2.8

Paul Smedley — 2012-06-12T09:58:23

Hi All,

Not tested by me, as I no longer have a gutenprint compatible printer:

http://smedley.id.au/gutenprint-5.2.8-os2-20120612.zip

Please don't distribute link.  Once tested as OK - I will update 
documentation and upload to sourceforge

Cheers,

Paul

Updated CUPS 1.4.8

Paul Smedley — 2012-06-11T05:32:25

Hi guys,

Minor changes to select() handling in cupsd, and an opportunity to 
rebuild against libc065.

Test print works here with a HP printer.

Please don't distribute link until I have some feedback and add the link 
at http://os2ports.smedley.id.au

Download link is 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/CUPS/cups-1.4.8-os2-20120611.zip/download

Cheers,

Paul

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?

Testing ...

Pete Brown — 2012-04-16T20:04:05

Hi All

As my recent response to Alex in thread Changing printer URI has not 
appeared I thought I'd just post a test.

Regards

Pete

Changing printer URI

Alex Taylor — 2012-04-15T12:09:08

Due to my own short-sightedness in setting up my print server, I find
that its IP address has changed.  So, I have to change the printer's
URI in CUPS.

Printer name: PX-101
Old URI: lpd://192.168.3.2/LP1
New URI: lpd://192.168.3.5/LP1

Unfortunately, I seem quite unable to do so.

Using the "Modify Printer" wizard in the CUPS web admin page, as soon 
as I hit the next button after entering the new URI, the web admin
gets stuck.  It sits trying to load the next page for around 5 minutes,
and finally comes back saying it's unable to get the printer options.
I cannot continue.

Next I tried running lpadmin from a command line:
  lpadmin -p PX-101 -v "lpd://192.168.3.5/LP1"
It sat doing nothing for, again, about 5 minutes, and eventually returned:
  lpadmin: Unknown

Any ideas, short of deleting the printer and creating a new one with
the correct URI?

Using CUPS 1.48.