Re: CUPS error

On 8/11/24 14:47, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 8/11/24 09:08, Cy Schubert wrote:
>> In message <20240811120331.7afbbea3613202e2e189ed44@dec.sakura.ne.jp>,
>> Tomoaki
>> AOKI writes:
>>> On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:22:33 -0400
>>> George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I'm not using HP printers, so just a prediction.
>>>
>>> Doesn't any of
>>>    print/hplip-plugin      [1]
>>>    print/foomatic-db-hpijs [2]
>>> needed?
>>
>> This is correct. I have an HP printer and these packages are also needed.
>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.freshports.org/print/hplip-plugin/
>>>
>>> [2] https://www.freshports.org/print/foomatic-db-hpijs/
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
>>>
> 
> Adding these packages does not help.  I should note that I already
> had "hplip" (not hplip-plugin) installed, and it came with a PPD
> file that seemingly applied to the M209dw: hp-laserjet_m207-m212.ppd.gz
> 
> The "WWW" entry for hplip-plugin displays an official HP page that
> claims to list all the HP printers that need the plugin, and the M209dw
> is not one of them.
> 
> Neither the foomatic-db-20240504 and foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 packages
> nor their associated web sites seem to know about the M209dw.
> 
> Apparently the printer DOES support IPP and I CAN print to it from
> my Android phone ...                                        -- George

Given that my color HP printer works, while the b&w is failing, I tried
the idiotic trick of using the color printer PPD on the b&w printer.
It no longer says that a filter failed.  (Looking at the two logs
showed that the color printer used filters texttopdf, pdftopdf,
pdftops, and hpps; whereas the b&w used texttopdf, texttopdf,
gstoraster, and hpcups, with hpcups apparently being the one that
failed.)  And in fact CUPS believed that the print job had succeeded.

But still the printer did not actually print anything.      -- George