bennist
November 19, 2014, 10:02pm
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Recently I installed openSUSE 13.2 with GNOME 3.14.1 on my computer. Everything works fine, except for my printer, an Epson Stylus Photo RX585. I installed my printer in the same way as before under 13.1 with Yast. I have a special driver from Epson which seems to be installed correctly. However, under Yast I can not print a test page. Nothing happens. Under localhost:631/admin I can print a test page, but it is not good. The contents of one page is divided over two pages.
When I look in the file /var/log/cups/error_log it gives an error: Bad driver information file “/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv” So that seems to be a wrong driver. How can I change this driver for the correct one? Everything worked fine under 13.1, so what has been changed in 13.2?
I found some possible solutions on this forum: installing hplip, adding the current user to group ‘lp’ but that didn’t help. I hope someone can help me with this problem.
Thijs Bennis
bennist:
Recently I installed openSUSE 13.2 with GNOME 3.14.1 on my computer. Everything works fine, except for my printer, an Epson Stylus Photo RX585. I installed my printer in the same way as before under 13.1 with Yast. I have a special driver from Epson which seems to be installed correctly. However, under Yast I can not print a test page. Nothing happens. Under localhost:631/admin I can print a test page, but it is not good. The contents of one page is divided over two pages.
When I look in the file /var/log/cups/error_log it gives an error: Bad driver information file “/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv” So that seems to be a wrong driver. How can I change this driver for the correct one? Everything worked fine under 13.1, so what has been changed in 13.2?
The easiest way to check the configured driver is to check the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/ directory. Examine the epson ppd and look for the ‘*cupsFilter:’ entry. Report back here with the line if you need help to make sense of it (but it should clearly show the path to the filter).
I found some possible solutions on this forum: installing hplip, adding the current user to group ‘lp’ but that didn’t help. I hope someone can help me with this problem.
Thijs Bennis
No, HPLIP is for HP printers. Irrelevant here.
Hplip is for HP printers; so it is no use for you.
There are gutenprint drivers for your printer which you should be able to use; if you go to the CUPS printers page and select your printer, you should find a Modify printer option (I think under Administration); just click through the options until you get to the list of printer drivers; then scroll down the list until you find the gutenprint drivers. There are two of them; I don’t know the difference but it would be worth trying a test page with both of them to see if one is better than the other.
bennist
November 19, 2014, 11:08pm
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Thank you for your quick replies.
The easiest way to check the configured driver is to check the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/ directory. Examine the epson ppd and look for the ‘*cupsFilter:’ entry. Report back here with the line if you need help to make sense of it (but it should clearly show the path to the filter).
In /etc/cups/ppd I found the file EPSON_Stylus_Photo_RX585.ppd. The ‘*cupsFilter:’ entry is
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/cups/lib/filter/epson-escpr-wrapper"
The file epson-escpr-wrapper exists in the given directory. So what can I do next?
There are gutenprint drivers for your printer which you should be able to use; if you go to the CUPS printers page and select your printer, you should find a Modify printer option (I think under Administration); just click through the options until you get to the list of printer drivers; then scroll down the list until you find the gutenprint drivers. There are two of them; I don’t know the difference but it would be worth trying a test page with both of them to see if one is better than the other.
I tried the gutenprint driver but it didn’ give a test page either.
crmrhm
November 20, 2014, 12:03am
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This problems seems to be the subject of openSUSE:Most annoying bugs 13.2 - openSUSE Wiki
The workaround given there is:
Workaround: Re-install cups-filters-ghostscript and restart cupsd (as root run “zypper install --force cups-filters-ghostscript” and “rccups restart”)
Howard
bennist
November 20, 2014, 12:32am
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This workaround solved my problem. I can now again use my printer.
Thank you for your help!
Thijs Bennis
Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
Hi all,
Hi,
Install libjpeg62
~$ sudo zypper in libjpeg62
then try again.
Hallo Paul,
Die libjpeg62 war in der 64 bit Version installiert.
Installiert und funktioniert!
Danke für die Hilfe.
fanifeey:
Hallo Paul,
Die libjpeg62 war in der 64 bit Version installiert.
Installiert und funktioniert!
Danke für die Hilfe.
Works like a charm after installing the 32-bit version of the lib. Thanks a lot!
On 2014-12-04 06:46, fanifeey wrote:
Please notice that you are posting on an English language forum, and
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Carlos E. R.