#Gutenprint vs foomatic pdf#
#Gutenprint vs foomatic install#
#Gutenprint vs foomatic drivers#
#Gutenprint vs foomatic driver#
#Gutenprint vs foomatic Patch#

#Gutenprint vs foomatic driver#

It also supplies PPD files for each printer, but most are available through foomatic or the recommended driver package.

The OpenPrinting Printer List provides driver recommendations for many printers. For details on how CUPS uses PPDs and filters, see. To drive a printer, CUPS needs a PPD file and, for most printers, some filters.

#Gutenprint vs foomatic drivers#

See CUPS/Printer-specific problems for an incomplete list of drivers that others have managed to get working. The drivers for a printer may come from any of the sources shown below. (Discuss in Talk:CUPS#CUPS printer drivers and backends are deprecated) Explain what is/will be handled by cups and what by cups-filters and/or other software. Reason: CUPS is planning to drop PPD and driver support ( CUPS issue 103), instead relying entirely on IPP Everywhere. local hostname resolution with Avahi and restart rvice. To discover, make use of discovered or share printers using DNS-SD/mDNS, setup. # dmesg | grep -i parport parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 2100 Series

To use a parallel port printer, the lp, parport and parport_pc kernel modules are required. To see if your USB printer is detected, make sure you have the usbutils package installed, then:īus 001 Device 007: ID 03f0:1004 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 970c/970cse For example, if the printer is connected to a USB port, it uses the USB back-end.Īdditional steps for printer detection are listed below for various connection interfaces.

#Gutenprint vs foomatic pdf#

The filter converts the PDF file to a format understood by the printer.CUPS then looks at the printer's PPD file (printer description file) and figures out what filters it needs to use to convert the PDF file to a language that the printer understands (like PJL, PCL, bitmap or native PDF).An application sends a PDF file to CUPS when 'print' has been selected (in case the application sends another format, it is converted to PDF first).It is important to know how CUPS works if wanting to solve related issues: Then, whenever a program attempts to connect to one of these CUPS sockets, systemd will start rvice and transparently hand over control of these ports to the CUPS process. If cups.socket is enabled (and rvice is disabled), systemd will not start CUPS immediately it will just listen to the appropriate sockets. Then enable and start rvice or alternatively use socket activation to only start CUPS when a program wants to use the service.Ĭups provides a cups.socket unit. The location can be changed in /etc/cups/nf. By default, PDF files are stored in /var/spool/cups-pdf/ username/.

#Gutenprint vs foomatic install#

Optionally, install the cups-pdf package if you intend to 'print' into a PDF document.

6.6 Allowing admin authentication through PolicyKit.

6.5 Print servers and remote administration.

#Gutenprint vs foomatic Patch#

via the Arch Build System, or by installing with yaourt and having customizepkg set up), one can apply the following patch to the PKGBUILD of gutenprint in order to have the modification within the package: - PKGBUILD.old 18:13:15.000000000 +0200 (Increasing the timeout in CUPS would not be good since one could wait for hours.)įor Arch Linux, if one builds the package locally (e.g. So, as long as /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic is not fixed to be quicker on big files, probably the best workaround is, if one wants to have both gutenprint and a full foomatic-install, to manually remove the two big XML files provided by gutenprint. Since it did not get information about printer drivers, it is not possible to add printers via any interface to CUPS other than manually editing configuration files. Eventually, it might finish, but CUPS times out earlier without having got any information about printer drivers and produces this strange Success-error.

When CUPS tries to get a list of printer drivers, /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic list is called, which takes way too long time on the big XML files (this is a fault of /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic).

foomatic or one of it's sub-packages ( foomatic-db-engine in Arch Linux) install the perl script /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic.

gutenprint installs two comparably big XML files, namely /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/gutenprint-ijs-simplified.5.2.xml and /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/gutenprint-ijs.5.2.xml (as in the current version as of this writing).

There is an informative discussion of this problem, so I provide just a summary:

or: Manually remove the files /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/gutenprint-ijs*.xml.

or: Remove the package providing /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic (which is foomatic-db-engine on Arch Linux),.

This bug triggers as an interaction between gutenprint, foomatic and cups.