OpenOffice 2.2.1 + CUPS 1.2.11 + Laserjet5

S James S Stapleton stapleton at mps.ohio-state.edu
Mon Aug 6 01:02:03 UTC 2007


Please CC me any replies as I am not on the list, thank you.

I'm not sure if this issue cropped up when I upgraded Xorg to 7.2 (which 
upgraded cups in the process), or when I upgraded OpenOffice to 2.2.1, but 
CUPS seems to forget about my printer. I'm pretty sure it happened at the 
Xorg upgrade

I reinstalled OpenOffice, and my printer just showed up for a while, but then 
it dissapeared again. I tried the spadmin app, but I get printer errors.

What I have:
FreeBSD 6.2
OpenOffice 2.2.1
CUPS 1.2.11
Networked HP Laserjet 5, using the 'HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5 CUPS v1.2' 
driver.

I run: openoffice.org-2.2.1-spadmin & 
* "New Printer..."
* "Add a Printer" [Next >>]
* [import]
* Browse to: "/usr/local/etc/cups/ppd"
* Select: "HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5" [OK]
* I'm put back in the window with 'import'. The driver I selected doesn't 
appear, so I have tried leaving it on the generic driver, as well as trying 
several HP Laserjet 4 and 5 drivers, with the same results.
* I leave the command line section as the default (blank, with 
an 'lpr -P "useage"' in the box. That strikes me as the likely area to have 
the problem. I click [Next >>]
* I leave the default name, and click [Finish]

When I open OpenOffice Writer, and the document I want to print, then go 
to "file"->"print", and select the printer I just added, I get a "Error while 
printing" dialog which only has an [ok] button.

What should I do at this point? I suspect that something in the rebuild was 
missed when I upgraded OpenOffice, but I rebuilt it after Xorg, using 
portupgrade with -R, on the editors/openoffice.org-2 port.


Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton


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