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Corona688
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 Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 1:58 am Post subject: CUPs refuses to print [RESOLVED] |
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I'm trying to get my printer working again, and CUPS gives me this: | Code: | E [06/May/2004:15:27:03 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 4!
I [06/May/2004:15:27:03 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? |
Yes. Yes I do. So what's the problem?
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nonotme
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this is kind of a shot in the dark, but do you have foomatic installed?
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drhirsch
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I accidently forgot USE="cups" in my make.conf. After enabling cups and reemerging kdelibs and ghostscript I got the very same error.
Reemerging cups solved the problem for me. |
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Hi! Sorry I took so long to get back to this thread, I had to send in the printer for repair.
I re-emerged ghostscript and cups with USE="CUPS" in make.conf and now it's printing. Not sure it's working RIGHT, but it's doing SOMETHING. As long as cups is cooperating with me instead of printing nothing and pretending everything's OK, I should be able to do something.
Thanks!
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OK... now it's doing something really bizzare. It prints pure black pages, and absolutely nothing else. wtf?
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Resolved! Lesson for the day: foomatic stinks, and whoever says otherwise obviously doesn't own an epson cx3200.
How I fixed it was thus:
In make.conf: | Code: | | USE="cups ppds foomaticdb" |
From shell: | Code: | | emerge --ask foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters gimp-print ghostscript cups |
Then, don't use foomatic. Repeat, don't use foomatic. Add your printer the standard way from http://localhost:631
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