Call for testing : Driverless printing on Zesty

[Till Kamppeter]

[ Re-posting to ubuntu-devel mailing list ]

Please check whether you have the up-to-date versions of CUPS and 
cups-filters:

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till at virt-devel:~$ dpkg -l | grep cups
ii  cups 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface
ii  cups-browsed                                         1.13.1-1 
                             amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - 
cups-browsed
ii  cups-client 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii  cups-common 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       all          Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - common files
ii  cups-core-drivers 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - PPD-less printing
ii  cups-daemon 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - daemon
ii  cups-filters                                         1.13.1-1 
                             amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - 
Main Package
ii  cups-filters-core-drivers                            1.13.1-1 
                             amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - 
PPD-less printing
ii  cups-ipp-utils 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - IPP developer/admin utilities
ii  cups-ppdc 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities
ii  cups-server-common 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       all          Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - server common files
ii  libcups2:amd64 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii  libcupscgi1:amd64 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - CGI library
ii  libcupsfilters1:amd64                                1.13.1-1 
                             amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - 
Shared library
ii  libcupsimage2:amd64 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - Raster image library
ii  libcupsmime1:amd64 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - MIME library
ii  libcupsppdc1:amd64 
2.2.1-46-g10887d272-2                       amd64        Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation library
till at virt-devel:~$
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If you have older versions, please run a system update.

Please run the following command:

driverless

This should show an entry for your printer, starting with "ipp".

If not, run

ippfind

Does your printer have an entry here?

If not, open the web administration interface of your printer, opening

http://<IP or host name of your printer>/

in a web browser. Go into the network settings and make sure that IPP 
support and/or AirPrint is enabled.

Do

sudo apt-get install avahi-discover

and then run

avahi-discover

Look for your printer. It should be available under your standard 
network interface (usually "eth0" or "wlan0"), IPv4, and there under 
"Unix Printer" and "Internet Printer". Click on its "Internet Printer" 
entry. Then you will see some data about it in the lower part of the 
window and the data also appearing in the terminal window from which you 
started avahi-discover, something like this:

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Service data for service 'Deskjet 2540 series [E7DDC7]' of type 
'_ipp._tcp' in domain 'local' on 3.0:
	Host HP5CB901E7DDC7.local (192.168.223.1), port 631, TXT data: 
['Scan=T', 'Duplex=F', 'Color=T', 
'UUID=1c852a4d-b800-1f08-abcd-5cb901e7ddc7', 'Fax=F', 'note=', 
'adminurl=http://HP5CB901E7DDC7.local./#hId-pgAirPrint', 
'mac=02:ba:d0:3f:7f:fe', 'priority=20', 'usb_MDL=Deskjet 2540 series', 
'usb_MFG=HP', 'product=(HP Deskjet 2540 series)', 'ty=Deskjet 2540 
series', 
'URF=CP1,MT1-2-8-9-10-11,OB9,OFU0,PQ3-4-5,RS300-600,SRGB24,W8-16,DEVW8-16,DEVRGB24-48,ADOBERGB24-48,IS1,V1.3', 
'kind=document,envelope,photo', 'PaperMax=<legal-A4', 'rp=ipp/print', 
'pdl=application/vnd.hp-PCL,image/jpeg,application/PCLm,image/urf', 
'qtotal=1', 'txtvers=1']
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Please post what you get for your printer.

It should have "image/urf" in the "pdl=..." part and it should have a 
"URF=..." part.

Please post the output of all commands in your reply. Thanks.

    Till


On 12/27/2016 11:01 PM, Bernard Tremblay wrote:
> Sorry to email directly, I'm new on the ubuntu-devel list. I have
> installed ubuntu-mate 17.04 and tried to setup a driverless printer
> according to your following post
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-December/039586.html
>
> I have a brother printer MFC-J650DW and it is listed in the
> support.apple.com <http://support.apple.com> list of printers that
> should be able to do "airprint".
>
> I have changed my cups-browsed.conf file and restart services.  I can
> see my printer if I try to add a printer.  But I can't set it up without
> being asked for the driver.   I tried too with cupsd on the localhost
> with same result.
>
> The OS is updated from today dec 27th 19:57 Eastern time.
>  uname -a
> Linux ungava 4.9.0-11-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 12 16:18:23 UTC
> 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Should I wait for some other update before it starts to work ?  Is it
> normal ?
>
>
> Regards,