help needed with printers

[Peter Goggin]

On 07/05/12 06:40, Chris Robinson wrote:
>
>> 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)
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> 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...
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> Maybe get rid of the .deb archives and try again?
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> 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
>
Having reinstalled CUPS I can get the Samsung Printer (connected via the 
network) and the Kyocera (connected to my windows box) to work with the 
Linux box.
I can get the Samsung printer to work as a USB printer on the Linux box, 
but the Kyocer fails with the CUPS internal error when connectd to the 
Linux box usb port.
I am getting a couple of usb to network print servers and will try to 
connect the kyocera via the network print server..
I will let you know if this works.

Regards

Peter Goggin