Description of problem: CUPS set up to print to Canon BJC3000 on Windows ME PC on the local LAN. Printer has to be power-cycled between print jobs or the job never gets printed, even though it's shown as "submitted" to the printer. Windows side shows job submitted to the printer, but printer doesn't print unless power-cycled. Will even hang Windows print jobs if not power-cycled. Using "foomatic/gimp-print-ijs" as driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Canon BJC3000 on Windows ME PC 2.Configure CUPS to print to shared Windows printer 3.Send multiple print jobs to shared windows printer Actual results: First job goes through fine, Subsequent jobs hang until printer is power-cycled. Expected results: All jobs should go through without having to power-cycle the printer. Additional info:
Firstly I'd like to try to eliminate foomatic. To do this, we'll need to switch to the native CUPS gimp-print drivers. Install the 'gimp-print-cups' package, and then use system-config-printer (System->Administration->Printing). Click on the queue you are using and then click the 'Change' button to the right of 'Make and Model'. The manufacturer should be correct so click Forward, and then you should see 'BJC-3000' already selected. Confusingly, the gimp-print-cups drivers for it are listed under 'BJC 3000' (earlier in the list), so select that for the model and then select 'C/bjc-3000.ppd.gz' for the driver. Then click forward, select 'try to copy the option settings', and then click apply. Now, does the modified queue show the same behaviour?
Unfortunately, I don't *have* an option for "bjc3000." I will try with "foomatic: BJC-3000-bjc600.ppd" which is the only other option for driver. I did search for "bjc-3000.ppd" and "bjc-3000.ppd.gz" on my system, but could not find them. Can you advise where they should be?
Ok. Looks like it just didn't like that printer driver. I just re-read your message and see that I overlooked the instruction to install the "gimp-print-cups" package. Even though the new driver works, I'll try the gimp-print-cups package and see if that fixes it. In any event, I would recommend marking this as "closed." Thanks for your help.
FWIW, installing "gimp-print-cups" results in a NEW manufacturer entry "CANON" (all upper-case" and THAT is where the new drivers are found. I'm going to try that and see if I can get better quality printing. Thanks for the help!
Okay, sorry about that. I didn't spot that because I'm using a test version of system-config-printer that merges upper- and lower-case manufacturers when they are different.. :-/ I'd be very interested to know if the gimp-print-cups driver gives the same symptom, because it will mean that we'll know if the problem comes from foomatic or from gimp-print.