Can't Print with newer versions

[Pedro]

Pedro,
The Epson driver included with CUPS hasn't changed. I can't speak to the Brother driver as we don't provide one.
What OS/Linux distribution are you using?

My Linux system is Slackware, in particular Salix-Xfce4-14.

Why would the filters not found for both of my printers with cups-1.6.1?

Linux Slackware
I have 2 printers, Epson LQ-300 24-pin and a Brother DCP-385C. For years I have been using cups with no problems until and including the version 1.4.6.
When I upgraded to version 1.5.4 the Epson printer would hang after printing a file and would not advance to the next page. For more printing I had to switch the printer off and on again.
I then installed cups-1.6.1 and can't print at all. An error shows for both printers that the filters cannot be found, yet they are right there in /usr/libs/cups/filter.
I had to reinstall cups-1.4.6 in order to print again.
Any solution?
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Pedro,

You didn't mention if you had the cups-filters package installed with
cups-1.6.1.

On Linux, cups-1.6 and later need the cups-filters package which has the
pdftops, pdftopdf, etc filters.


Doug

Post by Pedro

Pedro,
The Epson driver included with CUPS hasn't changed. I can't speak to the Brother driver as we don't provide one.
What OS/Linux distribution are you using?

My Linux system is Slackware, in particular Salix-Xfce4-14.
Why would the filters not found for both of my printers with cups-1.6.1?

Linux Slackware
I have 2 printers, Epson LQ-300 24-pin and a Brother DCP-385C. For years I have been using cups with no problems until and including the version 1.4.6.
When I upgraded to version 1.5.4 the Epson printer would hang after printing a file and would not advance to the next page. For more printing I had to switch the printer off and on again.
I then installed cups-1.6.1 and can't print at all. An error shows for both printers that the filters cannot be found, yet they are right there in /usr/libs/cups/filter.
I had to reinstall cups-1.4.6 in order to print again.
Any solution?
_______________________________________________
cups mailing list
http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/cups

_________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair