So thanks to all of you for the help you have provided. Before all this, I had never used synaptic or apt-get, and had never heard of CUPS. Upon completion, had exactly the same problem I started with. Configured the printer again from the cups site. I did an apt-get update, then per your suggestion, did an apt-get remove -purge and install of cupsys. Despite lack of an official driver direct from Canon, I have found three other drivers that should work with my printer, all to no avail. It is hard to really know, but I suspect I may have a fundamental problem with CUPS. I did register a driver request for my old printer, since they gave me the option to do so. Unfortunately, Canon is only providing a few drivers, for their newer printers (e.g. The sidux link appeared highly relevant, pointing to a location where Canon drivers could be downloaded. Thanks for the suggestions anticapitalista (and off topic - thanks for creating antiX, it is a wonderful distro, perfect for my old laptop). The symptoms seem similar to mine, but all the references I find are BSD related so I suspect this is not the problem.Īre other people successfully using parallel printers with CUPS under Lysistrata? Or is everyone using USB interface now? It suggests that a stray irq may be a problem when trying to use CUPS with a parallel printer. I did find one more very interesting post: I realize that is the localhost address where CUPS is running. Maybe it is just being verbose and that is ok. Not sure if there is something I can do about that or if I should care. The cups error log has a couple interesting errors, basically saying: Unable to bind socket for address 127.0.0.1:631 - Address already in use. I suspect the nf file could explain that, but haven't tried to sort that out. Also, it appears a side effect of issuing cupsd command is that I can no longer cancel print jobs or delete printers. Same result, paper sucked down, printer status indicates job is 18% complete, and then it hangs ad infinitum. With great anticipation, then printed a test page. Then I started the CUPS printer daemon with the /usr/sbin/cupsd command - something I didn't realize was necessary. = SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE =īased upon the information there, I went into my BIOS and changed my parallel setup from std bidir to ECP. I found some good hints for printing with CUPS at the following link: It seems like a fairly generic local printer on the parallel port should be easier than this. Into synaptic again, thinking maybe I could install PDQ, but could not find it. I could not make printer work with CUPS under Puppy 3.01, and now I cannot make it work with CUPS under antiX Lysistrata. The last time the printer worked, I was using PDQ under Puppy 2.16. The print job remains active, but no additional progress is made. About 18% of the job is printed - just enough to suck the paper down, but no printing actually occurs. That was enough to raise my hopes, but still no joy. It offered Gutenprint Parallel Port #1, and allowed me to install CUPS+Gutenprint V5.0.1 instead of foomatic. This time there were quite a few additional printer options. In desperation, I pulled synaptic back up and installed everything that appeared relevant:ĭeleted printer and re-installed from scratch. I created these directories, and placed a copy of the ppd file in the 1st. I checked the /var/log/cups/error_log and it appeared there were errors because /usr/local/share/ppd and /opt/share/ppd directories could not be found. Still the same error, foomatic-rip failed. It inspired me to re-download the ppd file and re-install the printer under localhost:631. I enjoyed reading your thread (misery loves company).
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