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Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

From Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: `Filter failed' no print error message
Date 2017-03-27 08:50 +0200
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Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

>> > "UnifiedLinuxDriver" indicates a package downloaded from
>> >
>> >  http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/
>> >
>> > But there is no version 1.02 offered by this site, See here
>> >
>> >  http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/suld.html
>> >
>> > Copying the PPD and filter is ok. But what file did you copy them from?
>> > UnifiedLinuxDriver_1.02.tar.gz is not offered by the bchemnet.com site.
>> >
>> > Have you got that, too. The file you say you downloaded does not exist
>> > at bchemnet.com as far as I can see.
>> 
>> 
>> I downloaded - years ago, when I bought the printer - from:
>> 
>>  http://www.samsung.com
>
> You were asked from where you got the package a couple of mails ago. I
> should have insisted you answer rather than guessing from a file name.
>
> Your best strategy is to download the latest package from Samsung
> instead of using something ancient.

>From Samsung web site I don't find that package...


> Alternatively, changing
>
>  *cupsFilter:  "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 rastertosamsungspl"
>
> to
>
>  *cupsFilter:  "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertosamsungspl"
>
> just might work.

Unfortunately, it doesn't...


>> .  With those two files, the printer had always worked fine with Debian.
>> Now I installed Debian on a new machine, and the printer won't print.
>> Strange because the old machine, where the printer still does work, *also*
>> has Debian Sid, the same operating system I have on my new Lenovo AMD A6
>> Desktop.
>> 
>> 
>> > Whatever package you are using is expecting rastertosamsungspl to process
>> > PostScript. As its name implies, it will only process raster data. CUPS
>> > will not like this line.
>> >
>> > Please post
>> >
>> >  cat Samsung_ML-191x_252x_Series.ppd | grep cupsFilter
>> >
>> > for the machine which prints for you. Check the PPD file name in
>> > /etc/cups.ppd first.
>> 
>> 
>> Here it is:
>> 
>> *cupsFilter:  "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 rastertosamsungspl"
>> 
>> , but exactly the same output also comes from Lenovo machine, where the
>> printer
>> won't work...  So I think there must be some other different special reason
>> because one is ok and the other is not although the system is the same on
>> both.
>
> I very much doubt the filtering on both machines is identical. The
> error_log you posted for the non-working machine had
>
>  D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 4741)
>  D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 4742)
>  D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl
>
> PostScript is being produced. There is no pstoraster filter in unstable's
> cups-filters package to give raster data to rastertosamsungspl.
>
> Please run
>
>  cupsfilter --list-filters -p /etc/cups/ppd/<ML-191x_ppd> -m printer/foo
> <input> -e > out.prn 2> log
>
> on both machines. A PDF or a text file would do for <input>. Post the
> two logs you get.

I suppose you mean something like:

 # cupsfilter --list-filters -p /etc/cups/ppd/Samsung_ML-191x_252x_Series.ppd -m printer/foo <input> -e > out.prn 2> log

, but what in place of `printer/foo' and <input>?

Thanks,

Rodolfo

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  Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 19:30 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 20:10 +0100
      Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:00 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 21:10 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:20 +0100
          Correction: Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-03-04 23:00 +0100
              Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 23:50 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 08:00 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 19:30 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:00 +0100
          Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 22:40 +0100
              Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 00:10 +0100
                Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 08:10 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 16:00 +0200
  Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:10 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:50 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-05 22:00 +0100
      `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages) Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 16:50 +0100
        Re: `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 18:10 +0100
          Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 22:10 +0100
            Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-12 00:30 +0100
              Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 17:30 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2017-03-13 20:10 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 21:00 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 19:30 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-25 13:10 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 19:00 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-26 22:00 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 23:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 00:50 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 08:50 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 13:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 15:40 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 17:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 18:20 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 19:30 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 20:20 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 21:10 +0100
        Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-03-25 14:30 +0100
          Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 19:50 +0200

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