Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me get my printer working again.

[Dale]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> My printer used to work.  According to CUPS, its last succesful print
> was in February.  (Incidentally, I used to have an up-to-date system, but
> that went when I screwed it up after Gentoo made Gnome-3 stable and I
> tried to switch out of Gnome.  My last emerge --sync was around the same
> time.)
>
> When I tried to print a *.pdf from evince, I got an error message saying
> /path/to/foomatic-rip didn't exist.  (Sorry, I can't reproduce the exact
> error message any more).  It would seem there has been a change from
> foomatic filters to cups-filters (which I have installed) at some stage.
>
> But I don't recall this change, and I can't find any docs about how to
> configure printing to use cups-filters.  When I go through the "Modify
> printer" sequence in http://localhost:631, and try to change the filter,
> I just get presented with a long list of foomatic filters.
>
> I've been at this stage for some while now, dreading the impending hours
> and hours of web searching.  Any tips people can give me to cut this
> miserable process short will be most warmly received.
>
> By the way, what has happened to the helpful documentation which used to
> be at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en?  Most of it seems to have
> disappeared.  There used to be a helpful doc on setting up a printer,
> but that has gone.  (I'm lucky enough to be able to read the German
> translations, which (largely, at least) still exist, but they're
> somewhat out of date).
>

When I run into this issue, I delete the printer and add it back.  For
some reason, that has always fixed my issues. It seems that when CUPS
gets upgraded, it needs the printers reconfigured from scratch. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

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