Cups: more problems than solutions?

[bad sector]

Used to be that we had one printer and it worked or it didn't (mostly
didn't). Have we come upon a new are or epoch, one where we'll now have
to test every single application and document type to see if they print?

Sys: OpenSUSE-12.2
Printer: HP-cp1525nw (wifi)

New installation, yast used to set printer up & printer test page came
out ok. Cups set up and BOTH test pages orderd by cups print ok. Most
graphics pages print ok friom ginp, gwenview etc. Hoeever the ONLY
appluication to successfully print a text page is lowly nedit, the one
that no one wants to admit anymore.

Also interesting:

1
the HP Toolbox is incapable of seeing another HP product that has
siuccessfully been set uop both in CUPS and in Yast. All it has to do is
scan!

2
an almosty identical installation on an amd desktop presented no problems

What files should I try to clone over from the good installation that
prints everything?

[bad sector]

forgot to add, I'm using KDE4 and I don't think nedit fits in there
either though it's the only one that does work ;-)

[Pinnerite]

I am no expert but it is years since I had any problems with printers under
Linux from the 'getting them recognised' point of view.

The important files to copy are the ppd files (/etc/cups/ppd) and
cupsd.conf and possibly printers.conf.

If you use cups-pdf to create pdf files, also cups-pdf.conf if like me you
customise it to send the pdfs to where you want them but that's not what you
asked.

IHTH

Alan

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[Martin]

On 10/09/2012 02:51 AM, bad sector wrote:
> Also interesting:
>
> 1
> the HP Toolbox is incapable of seeing another HP product that has
> siuccessfully been set uop both in CUPS and in Yast. All it has to do is
> scan!
>
> 2
> an almosty identical installation on an amd desktop presented no problems

fwiw, I have recently set up an old office printer at my father's. Since
it's an HP printer I used the hplip driver from the standard Slackware
installation, but the installer always segfaulted no matter what.

In the end I simply downloaded a PPD file from God knows where, gave it
to CUPS and everything works fine.

The final score: HP Nil, CUPS One.

[bad sector]

It does look like CUPS is not to blame for this one, and HP are
supposedly the most linux friendly printers. I've had about 3 other HP's
before but this cp1525 has had problems and no suitable drivers for a
while. Now that that there is a driver (the 1520-series-ps) someone
screweed something else up (see my other post). I had a 6L laser for a
long-long time, no CUPS then but good drivers and never had a single
problem with it.