I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 960c color inkjet printer working on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Live CD with CUPS. I have tried everything but nothing works :-(
I booted up, hooked my printer up to the parallel port and powered it on, added paper, printer's green light is on. I then went to System -> Administration -> Printing in GNOME Clicked on New Printer and it ran gnome-cups-add and read the printer database Then the Add a Printer dialog box says: Step 1 of 3: Printer Connection Printer Type: local printer Use a detected printer: HP DESKJET_960C It has in Printer Port: (greyed out so I can't change it): hp:/par/DESKJET_960C?device=/dev/parport0 (HP DESKJET_960C) So it detected my correct printer. Then I went Forward to: Step 2 of 3: Printer Driver Manufacturer: HP Model: Deskjet 960C Driver: hpijs (recommended) - HPLIP 0.9.7 (Suggested) There is a green dot after this showing it is installed. Then I went Forward to: Step 3 of 3: Printer Information Name: Deskjet Description: HP-DESKJET Location: home So after I filled those in I clicked Apply. But when I go back to the Printers control panel I don't see any printer in there. It just says has the New Printer icon to create a new printer. It should have created the printer I setup. And when I try to print it said in the console: lpr: Error - no default destination available. So apparently it is not setting it up. Booted up, hooked my printer up to the parallel port and powered it on, added paper, printer's green light is on. I then went to System -> Administration -> Printing Clicked on New Printer and it ran gnome-cups-add and read the printer database Then the Add a Printer dialog box says: Step 1 of 3: Printer Connection Printer Type: local printer Use a detected printer: HP DESKJET_960C It has in Printer Port: (greyed out so I can't change it): hp:/par/DESKJET_960C?device=/dev/parport0 (HP DESKJET_960C) So it detected my correct printer. Then I went Forward to: Step 2 of 3: Printer Driver Manufacturer: HP Model: Deskjet 960C Driver: hpijs (recommended) - HPLIP 0.9.7 (Suggested) There is a green dot after this showing it is installed. Then I went Forward to: Step 3 of 3: Printer Information Name: Deskjet Description: HP-DESKJET Location: home So after I filled those in I clicked Apply. But when I go back to the Printers control panel I don't see any printer in there. It just says has the New Printer icon to create a new printer. It should have created the printer I setup. And when I try to print it said in the console: lpr: Error - no default destination available. So apparently it is not setting it up. I verified I have the correct drivers installed: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep hplip ii hplip 0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP) ii hplip-data 0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files ii hplip-ppds 0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - PPD files ubu...@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep hpijs ii foomatic-db-hpijs 1.5-20060318-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database ii hpijs 2.1.7+0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive Here are my cups packages: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep cups ii bluez-cups 2.24-0ubuntu6 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS ii cupsys 1.2.0-0ubuntu5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cupsys-bsd 1.2.0-0ubuntu5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman ii cupsys-client 1.2.0-0ubuntu5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu6 printer drivers for CUPS ii gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu13 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME ii libcupsimage2 1.2.0-0ubuntu5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs ii libcupsys2 1.2.0-0ubuntu5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.2-1ubuntu5 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-1.1ubuntu13 UI extensions to libgnomecups I found the program that adds the printer is gnome-cups-manager which calls gnome-cups-add so I ran that, but after I go through and select everything (ran 'sudo gnome-cups-manager') it still doesn't add the printer and in the console it says: ** (gnome-cups-add:28853): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1280 I found this is /var/log/cups/error_log: E [31/Dec/2008:08:15:02 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized I ran as root this time (sudo) so I don't understand why it is saying I am unauthorized. And I found this in /var/log/cups/access_log: localhost - - [31/Dec/2008:08:14:18 -0500] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1652 CUPS-Get-Devices - localhost - - [31/Dec/2008:08:14:26 -0500] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 652837 CUPS-Get-PPDs - localhost - - [31/Dec/2008:08:15:02 -0500] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 352 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok localhost - root [31/Dec/2008:08:15:02 -0500] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 352 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer server-error-internal-error I also tried running as normal user (and I verified I am in group lpadmin) and same result. I even tried the cups web interface: http://localhost:631/admin I selected Add Printer and choose my model HP960C and the hplip driver but when I go to apply it says: 413 Request Entity Too Large What does this mean?! I have exhausted every solution I could find As a last resort I tried running lpadmin to set the printer manually and I get that stupid ambiguous error message again, same one I got in the cups web interface. Does anyone know what this error message means and how I can get my printer (HP Deskjet 960C hooked up to parallel port) setup using lpadmin: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo lpadmin -h localhost -p HP -D printer -u allow:ubuntu -P /rofs/usr/share/cups/model/hpijs/HP/HP-DeskJet_960C-hpijs.ppd lpadmin: Request Entity Too Large ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 160 2009-01-01 02:35 /var drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 80 2009-01-01 02:30 /var/spool drwx--x--- 5 cupsys lp 60 2008-12-31 18:09 /var/spool/cups drwxrwx--T 4 cupsys lp 40 2006-05-17 08:46 /var/spool/cups/tmp Zach -- cannot create printers in live system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40795 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
