Having trouble printing to my HP OJ Pro 8600 all-in-one

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 22:12:13 -0800 Patrick Mahan <mahan at mahan.org> wrote:
> On 11/25/16 8:07 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > On 11/25/16 20:24, Patrick Mahan wrote:  
> >> On 11/25/16 6:40 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:  
> >>> On 11/25/16 16:46, Patrick Mahan wrote:  
> >>>> On 11/23/16 8:50 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:  
> >>>>> On 11/22/16 21:22, Patrick Mahan wrote:  
> >>>>>> All,  
> > ...  
> >>>>>> I just update my binary packages (after much much pain) since they were
> >>>>>> so out of date.  One of the items that seemed to drastically was CUPS.
> >>>>>> I had CUPS-2.0.1 and now have CUPS-2.2.1, but it seems I have lost all
> >>>>>> printing ability.  I re-installed all available cups packages (except client,
> >>>>>> can't see where that exists) along with gutenprint and hplip.  I see on
> >>>>>> the ports page that there a secondary package called hplip-plugins but
> >>>>>> pkg will not install it as it says it cannot find any package matching
> >>>>>> that name.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cups sees the printer, it seems up, but when I attempt to print a test
> >>>>>> page, I get the following error:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>    Unable to print test page:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>           Unsupported format "text/plain".
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Looking in /usr/local/etc/cups and I don't see any definition for
> >>>>>> "text/plain".  Also, the cups filter in the .ppd for the printer
> >>>>>> is set to "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 hpcups", but I can find
> >>>>>> no definition of vnd.cups-raster nor hpcups.  
> > 
> > Are you saying you have a mime.types under /usr/local/etc/cups?
> > These should be in /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
> > What are the permissions on it?
> > $ ls -l /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
> > -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6743 Nov  7 08:40 /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
> >   
> 
> Um, no...
> 
> From my earlier email -
> 
> mahan at gypsy-new-~ 6 > grep "text/plain" /usr/local/share/cups/mime/*.types
> /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types:text/plain                        txt
> printable(0,1024)
> 
> The location of mime.types is where it should be.
> 
> The permissions are -
> 
> gypsy-new# ls -l /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6743 Nov 19 18:08 /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
> 
> Here are the *.types in /usr/local/etc/cups/
> 
> gypsy-new# find /usr/local/etc/cups -name "*.types"
> /usr/local/etc/cups/apple.types
> /usr/local/etc/cups/command.types
> 
> So I'm still not sure why this is broken now.  Is there someway to enable
> debugging in the filter handling?

What is the output of 'pkg which /usr/local/etc/cups/apple.types'?  If it
says not found in database, remove the file.  If /usr/local/etc/cups/mime.*
exist, remove them.  You can also remove the following packages:

foomatic-db-20161105
foomatic-db-engine-4.0.12_1,2
foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4
gimp-gutenprint-5.2.10_3
gutenprint-base-5.2.10_2
gutenprint-cups-5.2.10_3
gutenprint-foomatic-5.2.10_2
hplip-plugin-3.16.10

Then restart cupsd with 'service cupsd restart'.