Printing via CUPS to a network printer problem

[Guest MrVolk]

Hi All,

 

 

I'm new to Mandriva after switching from ubuntu and so far I am very impressed although had some minor issues.

 

One issue I am having is with printing to a network printer via CUPS. When using the configuration utility, I can see the printer no problems and even successfully configure it. But when I go to use the 'Test' print feature nothing happens.

 

I loaded up a text editor for testing and printed via that and checked the print jobs manager for the task where it did show up and disappear so apparantely the task went somewhere but not to the remote printer :(

 

 

Where the heck would the print job be going to? The remote printer is actually connected to OSX and I have had another Linux distro print to it previously.

 

I've tried both TCP/IP network printing as well as LPP(?) which both configure the remote printer fine but neither will actually do anything (No errors either).

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

[scarecrow]

The Linux printer backend HAS to be installed locally, no matter if the remote printer is hooked on a windows, OSX or Linux machine.

See the file /var/log/cups/error_log for possible printing problems.

Currently using a Canon Pixma iP500 printer, hooked on a remote XP box, and for printing I do have to install the Turboprint driver locally (I can also use a free one, provided by Canon Japan, but it's not working smoothly yet).

Regards.

Edited April 20, 2007 by scarecrow

[Guest MrVolk]

Thanks for the info. It works now, but what I ended up doing was adding the printer via the Mandriva Linux control center rather than the printer config via the KDE control center and added the IP of the remote CUPS server. I did notice that earlier in the print manager under comments for the added printer that it said something about recommending to use the HPIJ(?) and the newly added printer config under comments never mentioned that.

So all is good :)

 

Cheers,

 

MrVolk