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Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd

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On Fri 11 Dec 2020 at 21:33:42 -0300, riveravaldez wrote:

> Hi, I'm having an issue with a Brother HL-3150CDN printer on Debian Testing.

You do not say, so we will assume there is a USB connection. The device
probably does IPP-over-USB; you will want to read

  https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting
 
> The printer functions with the drivers CUPS offers by default, but the
> official Brother's drivers has some options that I need to work with
> the equipment.

An interesting comment. Debian will have set uo a print queue for the
printer. Please give the output of

  lpoptions -p PRINT_Q_NAME -l

> I was able to install these drivers some time ago, but now they didn't
> seem to work.
> 
> The two file to install are:
> hl3150cdnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
> hl3150cdncupswrapper-1.1.4-0.i386.deb
> 
> Both for 32-bits, so, I did the:
> $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
> $ sudo apt-get update
> 
> And then used apt-get to install them.
> The packages get installed but didn't seem to send the data to the
> printer at printing time.
> Any idea how to diagnose this?
> 
> The only error I'd saw until now is when I install the lpr package:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install ./hl3150cdnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
> (...)
> mkdir: no se puede crear el directorio «/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn»: No
> existe el fichero o el directorio
> chown: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el
> fichero o el directorio
> chgrp: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el
> fichero o el directorio
> chmod: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el
> fichero o el directorio

The installation of this package goes smoothly on my i386 machine.

-- 
Brian.

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Can't print: /var/spool/lpd riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 01:40 +0100
  Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-12-12 05:20 +0100
    Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-14 14:40 +0100
      Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-12-19 11:10 +0100
  Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-12 13:50 +0100
    Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-12-19 11:10 +0100
      Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-19 18:00 +0100

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