On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 20:34, Matt H. wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to setup my Canon BJC-255SP printer locally (/dev/lp0) with the > CUPS printing sub-system. Has anyone got this printer (or similar) working? > > redhat-config-printer successfully installed it, but test jobs are not > working (i.e. nothing prints!). > > The output of /var/log/cups/error_log suggests that the device used, > "bjccolor" is unknown. `gs -h` confirms this and the only similar device > available would probably be "bjc600". > > Errors: > > D [09/Mar/2004:18:31:51+1000] [Job 7] renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH > -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bjccolor-sPrinterType=BJC-250' > D[09/Mar/2004:18:31:51 +1000] [Job 7] foomatic-gswrapper: gs'-dBATCH' > '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET''-dNOPAUSE''-sDEVICE=bjccolor''-sPrinterType=.. > D[09/Mar/2004:18:31:51+1000] [Job 7] Unknown device: bjccolor > > Ultimately, I always end up with this error every time: > D [09/Mar/2004:18:31:51 +1000] [Job 7] Possible error on renderer command > line or PostScript error. Check options. > E [09/Mar/2004:18:31:51 +1000] PID 1966 stopped with status 3! > > Some googling suggests to install ESP Ghostscript instead of GNU > Ghostscript (which supposedly has "bjccolor" compiled in) but all > attempts to do this fail with dependency issues. The error above also > suggests to "check options", but damned if I knew where! > > I've never been able to set up this printer properly in all RH versions in > the past, despite the linuxprinting DB specifying this printing as status > "works perfectly". ROFL.. > > *Any help/ideas/suggestions/etc would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > -- > Matt The best thing I can suggest would be to pop over to this site: http://www.turboprint.de/english.html And get the demo version of this software, and run the printer from there. I have both a Canon BJC-3000 & S830D using Turboprint and it works great. CUPS's default printer drivers seem to work ok, but it doesn't print properly for me. And Turboprint interfaces to CUPS as well. Wolf
