Mel,
The only other thing I can think of is you might be having a driver problem.
Which drivers have you tried? I think the newest printer drivers come in the
foomatic-bin foomatic-db-gimp-print packages from linuxprinting.org. From
your original message it sounds like you might have already done this but if
you have the above packages installed you should get drivers named something
like "foomatic+gimpprint" for your printer model. Try using those instead of
the "CUPS+gimpprint" drivers.
~Scott
On May 30, 2003 02:57 am, Mel Walters wrote:
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> Just am not getting this and I am over tired. Thought I had it fixed, but
> was wrong.
> When it was printing the ipp functions would NOT work.
> Now I got all that going, but I get the error below, yet gs and gs-esp
> work fine to look at the tiger.ps file. (Thats the gs-esp 7.05.6-2 that is
> used instead of cupsys-pstorastor)
> When I turn up the error to debug I do NOT get any more usefull info.
>
> How do you Debian (unstable) linux guru's out there do YOUR cups printing ?
>
> I [30/May/2003:02:40:52 -0600] New printer 'BJC4300' added by 'root'.
> I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Saving printers.conf...
> I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Printer 'BJC4300' modified by 'root'.
> I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Saving printers.conf...
> I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Printer 'BJC4300' now accepting jobs
> ('root'). I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Saving printers.conf...
> I [30/May/2003:02:40:53 -0600] Printer 'BJC4300' started by 'root'.
> I [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Job 20 queued on 'BJC4300' by 'root'.
> E [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format
> for job 20!
> I [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
> I [30/May/2003:02:41:09 -0600] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug".
>
> thanks
> Mel
>
> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:09 pm, you wrote:
> > Thanks for your help, I have this problem and one some more repaired now.
> >
> > I rather than go through all the gory details, I would like to get a
> > thumb nail sketch of may path.
> > Since may upgrade to Deb unstable my LinNeighborhood and smbclient, etc.
> > was not working correctly. So I decided to try down grading samba using
> > Aptitude. This was a little tricky at first but worked well, bringing up
> > the function of accessing our samba server here Not much in the way of
> > dependency snarls for samba once I set it on hold after the older version
> > got installed. I thought of trying some think similar with Cups, but soon
> > aborted that idea. Looked bad and was going to take forever, so I dropped
> > that. Then I thought I may try to look at KDE since that was going to
> > brake if I down graded Cups.
> >
> > So I used Aptitude to install the KDE metapackage 4:3.1.1 which had all
> > the dependencies needed to install the official KDE package.
> > A little more printer driver config and I was printing just as good as
> > before. Think I am getting the knack of the Happy Dedian Workstation, and
> > I like it MUCH so far. I am getting so much of my wish list running
> > trouble free(er:) Even got the latest GnuCash going, with its Small
> > Business functions, tutorial etc.
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Mel Walters
> >
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:02 pm, you wrote:
> > > Well, if gs is installed correctly "gs filename" should be enough to
> > > display the file on the screen. Note that some of the samples in
> > > /usr/share/doc/gs-esp/examples/ might be gziped and could confuse gs if
> > > you attempt to display them without decompressing them. Does "gs
> > > /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps" work? If so, when you go to
> > > http://localhost:631/ is your printer correctly configured and can you
> > > print the test page? If not maybe posting your /var/log/cups/error_log
> > > could be of some help.
> > >
> > > ~Scott
> > >
> > > On May 27, 2003 03:42 pm, Mel Walters wrote:
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> > > > On May 27, 2003 01:02 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > Try installing gs-esp if you haven't already. It renders
> > > > > postscript as
> > > >
> > > > Yes I have that already.
> > > > When I look at cupsys 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > then --\ Depends
> > > > tells me I have --\ gs-esp 7.05.6-2 installed
> > > >
> > > > I did not yet see anyway to configure or check it out. ??
> > > > and it appears to function somewhat
> > > > ================================= eg
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gs-esp -sDEVICE=bbox
> > > > /usr/share/doc/gs-esp/examples/golfer.ps
> > > > ESP Ghostscript 7.05 (2003-02-05)
> > > > Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
> > > > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for
> > > > details. %%BoundingBox: 14 37 570 719
> > > > %%HiResBoundingBox: 14.308066 37.547999 569.495061 718.319158
> > > >
> > > > >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> > > >
> > > > GS>quit
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> > > > ==================================eg END
> > > > from the gs-esp man page
> > > > prints out
> > > >
> > > > %%BoundingBox: 0 25 583 732
> > > > %%HiResBoundingBox: 0.808497 25.009496 582.994503
> > > > 731.809445 ====
> > > >
> > > > > graphics which is what Cups is complaining about (missing
> > > > > pstoraster).
> > > > >
> > > > > ~Scott
> > > > >
> > > > > On May 27, 2003 01:42 pm, Mel Walters wrote:
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> > > > > > Hi all
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have been working on this and it's just not fallen into place,
> > > > > > very odd ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I get this error with debug status on
> > > > > > Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 50!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am told this error is caused by not having the pstoraster
> > > > > > filter included in ESP GhostScript, or not having applied the
> > > > > > GhostScript patches in the pstoraster directory of the CUPS
> > > > > > sources. With advice I need to install ESP GhostScript or the
> > > > > > patch starting with CUPS 1.1.15. I'm not sure yet if this applies
> > > > > > to my case.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > These are the deb packages I have installed:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > libcupsimage2 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > libcupsimage2-dev 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > cupsys-pt 1.0.2-2
> > > > > > cupssys-driver-gimpprint 4.2.5-3
> > > > > > libcupsys2-dev 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > libcupsys2 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > cupsys 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > cupsys-bsd 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > cupsys-client 1.1.19candidate4-1
> > > > > > cupsomatic-ppd 0.20010420-4
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I believe I am using the same driver that worked fine while
> > > > > > running mandrake 9.1and it worked great
> > > > > > and that was
> > > > > > CANON BJC 4300, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5
> > > > > > as I am using a BJC-4300ex printer
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But I have tried two or three others with the same debug error.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any one know were to start ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Mel Walters
> > > > > >
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