help needed with printers

[Chris Robinson]

> From: Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com>
>To: Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Sunday, 6 May 2012 9:41 PM
>Subject: Re: help needed with printers

>I have reinstalled CUPS but the problem still remains. I can get my Samsung colour laser printer to work through the usb port but not yhe Kyocera FS1010.  I am using 12.04 ubuntu.
>
>By the way even when connected to the windows box as a shared
    printer the ubuntu box cannot use the Kyocera.
>Any suggestions welcome.
>
>Regards
>
>
>Peter Goggin


Can you connect to the Windows workgroup from the Ubuntu Box?  Add a printer and see if the Workgroup shows up.  You should be able to see the Windows machine and the printer connected to it.  (Set the workgroup name in /etc/samba/smb.conf and reboot)

I've played with installing the Kyocera drivers here and it seems to work OK - I just don't have a Kyocera to test it properly.

The reason I suggested the purge when removing cups was because it seems that there may be a problem with the Kyocera drivers - corrupted or unreadable.  Cups is working because you can install the Samsung driver, but it's bombing on the Kyocera.  I had hoped that if this was the case -purge and complete re-install would fix it, but if it's re-using a bad file in the archives rather than downloading it again...

Maybe get rid of the .deb archives and try again?

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
sudo apt-get purge cups
sudo apt-get install cups.

You should see the gutenprint drivers removed and then re-installed after downloading


Chris