Network Printer - The sequel

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#1

Hey All,

Well, as per another thread I had going here, I am having a lot of trouble hooking up a Canon Imagerunner 400S Network Printer/photocopier.

I am tryng CUPS localhost screen, but cannot get it working.

Is there something else I can try?

Thanks again

Heeter

#2

Well, I don’t know of the other thread, or what has been tried there. I do hope that this isn’t another post of the same topic–if so, you should have put it in the other thread, even if just to “nudge” it back to the top of the new posts.

Anyway, the last school I taught at had several network printers across the district. The particular ones in my building were Lexmark Optras (?). I found the ppd online, dropped it into /etc/cups/ppd (or wherever they are all kept), and then added the printer as a network printer, complete with its own ip address.

Hope that helps.

#3

Great, I will try that as well.

Anything will help right now.

How did you connect the printer afterwards? Through the localhost CUPS?

It has been over a week that I have been trying to get this printer connected to the only OpenSuse11 workstation in this windoze dominated domain.

Heeter

#4

No problem. I believe I grabbed the ppd from linuxprinting.org.

Let me know how it goes.

#5

Have you tried samba and LPD from here:
Printer Sharing: Windows Print Server for Suse/openSUSE Linux Clients [Samba and LPD]

I haven’t tried them in ver 11.0 – but they were OK for 10.3.

#6

Great, Swerdna

Will try that as well,

Thanks for your help,

Heeter

#7

I am printing from the network also with canon though a different model (cheap model ip4000) and using my router as the print server so there is a slight difference. The queue I use is lp (in small letters)

In yast try the network printers
Try the print directly to a network printer
fill up the ip address (192.bla.blah) and the queue as lp
The printer has to be supported like the driver should be in the selection so you can choose it and use to make the printer work.

There are more network printer options that you can try playing around until you
find the right one.

With smb I think there is a complete how to on swerdna’s site.

#8

> Is there something else I can try?

Replied to original thread.

#9

I am having the same issue with SUSE 11 64 Bit. It took me all of 30 seconds to setup a network printer in Ubuntu 8.04. In SUSE 11 I can’t get it to work at all. The print function from YAST at least allows you to get a little further but still nothing. In Ubuntu all I need is the IP and the queue and off it goes.

#10

Suse 11.0, 32-bit. I am having issues setting up a printer too. If I go through the control panel, I can add my networked HP 4000N, but nothing ever prints to it. If I try to use Yast, I can find the same networked printer. However, if I click “Next” at the “Printer Queue Edit Dialog”, the GUI crashes:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
YaST got signal 6 at YCP file printer/dialogs.ycp:2569
/sbin/yast2: line 421: 18272 Aborted                 $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS

In fact, clicking on any of the tabs in that dialog also causes a GUI crash.

FWIW, I am selecting the “Print Directly to a Network Printer” option with “Direct TCP Port Printing”, no sharing, with local filtering (whatever that does).

#11

> FWIW, I am selecting the “Print Directly to a Network Printer” option
> with “Direct TCP Port Printing”, no sharing, with local filtering
> (whatever that does).

Take a look at what CUPS thinks about your setup:
http://localhost:631/

#12

Octane, try HPLIP for your HP 4000N. HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) or you can find it with the yast software manager.

#13

Yeah, soon after my post, I was able to find another thread with the same problem. I was able to get everything working using CUPS. can’t configure printer!!! - openSUSE Forums
Regardless, 11.0 has some printing issues.

That HPLIP looks nice. I might give it a try if I have any more problems.

#14

> I was able to get everything working using CUPS.

Great!

#15

On 2008-08-08, 0ctane <0ctane@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> That HPLIP looks nice. I might give it a try if I have any more
> problems.

For a simple printer like the Laserjet 4000, there is little point in adding
an extra layer of software. HPLIP is very usefull for multi-function
devices, or those odd (read: GDI rather then PCL or PS) printer models.

I have several models of the 4xxx and 5xxx series, never had a problem
printing to it from a Yast setup. Go for a LPD rather IPP transport, it’s a
bit faster.

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