[TriLUG] Cups in Sarge giving me a headache

Michael Alan Dorman mdorman at debian.org
Thu Jan 20 17:16:15 EST 2005


Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> writes:
>   Now the problem I am having is with CUPS in Sarge.  I have a printer 
> mapped (network HPLJet4 hosted on a Windows XP host running Unix 
> printing service)..  lpd://the.host.ip/sharename...  And everything 
> seems to behave normally; no error messages crop up.

So it'll print the cups test page correctly?

> somehugeimage.ps is large enough that it should be spending some time in 
> the local print queue.

What do the logs say?

> The /etc/cups/printer.conf entries on both machines are identical.
> The only difference that I can see immediately is the Sarge machine
> uses GIMP-Print and the FC2 machine uses Foomatic.  Could that be
> it?

Not impossible, but it seems relatively unlikely.

Mike
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