[CentOS] Re: The scariest set up of all: Printer Support -- step-by-step: Canon PIXUS iP3100

[Matt Hyclak]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 06:11:07PM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us:
> >system-config-printer-gui
> 
> Ah! There it is.
> 
> Well, Everything went according to plan as far as the web site 
> instructions went.
> 
> However, when trying to print a test page, I got the following error output:
> 
> I [19/Aug/2005:18:07:16 +0900] Adding start banner page "none" to job 3.
> I [19/Aug/2005:18:07:16 +0900] Adding end banner page "none" to job 3.
> I [19/Aug/2005:18:07:16 +0900] Job 3 queued on 'Canon' by 'root'.
> I [19/Aug/2005:18:07:16 +0900] Started filter 
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 6160) for job 3.
> I [19/Aug/2005:18:07:16 +0900] Started filter 
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 6161) for job 3.
> I [19/Aug/2005:18:07:16 +0900] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 
> (PID 6162) for job 3.
> 
> And at the command prompt where I had originally started 
> system-config-printer-gui, I got these error messages:
> 
> No match for USB device:
>  mfr "Canon"
>  model "iP_3100"
>  desc "Canon iP_3100"
>  cmdset "BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe"
> Please report this message in Bugzilla:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Choose 'foomatic' as the component.
> 
> Does anyone smarter than me (which is anyone) have any idea if there are 
> any potential clues in this?
> Note that I'm fully prepared for my printer to not work. But I'm not 
> ready to give up quite yet.
> 

First thing I would do is open /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and change LogLevel to
debug2. Restart cups with a "service cups restart". Try printing again and
you should get much more verbose output that should point you in the right
direction. 

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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