[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#380549: cupsys: As of 1.2.2-1 HP Deskjet stopped printing. Only test pages print.

[Dimitris Kogias]

OK, another update and possibly resolution:

My CUPS setup consists of two servers.  One runs on my day-to-day
workstation (no printers directly connected) and the other runs on a
print/file/etc server, which is where the Deskjet is connected.  Both
are running unstable and CUPS 1.2.2-1.

Both CUPS instances have a printer called "deskjet".  The workstation's
printer's device URI is "ipp://<server>:631/printers/deskjet" pointing
to the server's "deskjet" instance, whose device URI is of course
"parallel:/dev/lp0."

Both printers had been configured to use the CUPS HP Deskjet driver,
going back to when I was running CUPS 1.1, and printing from the
workstation, including printing of PS files, had worked without problems.

I had never tried to print directly from the print server machine, but
when I tried (with the google.ps file I attached earlier) it printed
correctly.

I just switched the workstation instance to use the "Generic postscript
color printer rev4" instead of the Deskjet driver, and I can now print
at least postscript.

It seems that with 1.2.2-1, having both printers use the CUPS Deskjet
drivers resulted in an attempt to convert from PS to HP (PCL?) "twice".
 Is auto-detection of this (which seemed to work with previous CUPS
versions) supposed to exist in 1.2.2?  If not, then this isn't a bug.

Either way I have some manual reading to do to see what I have to
configure in order for other types of files to be properly handled:  I
tried to print a raw text file, but that doesn't work any more (it used
to work with earlier versions).

Thanks

D.