Brother HL-2130: CUPS, foomatic, hpijs

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Hi there!

Trying to get a Brother HL-2130 running on my GuixSD here.

I had a glimpse at

        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00099.html

According to

        
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems#Brother

it should work with

        foomatic (using the HL-2140 driver)     or hplip

Both of which seem to be the same according to

        http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2140

So I've setup a CUPS print with the following PPD:

http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=hpijs-pcl5e&printer=Brother-HL-2140&show=0

Printing a test page yields an error.

Excerpt from the /var/log/cups/error_log:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] 
================================================
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] File: <STDIN>
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] 
================================================
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] PAGE: 1 1
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Filetype: PDF
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Storing temporary files in 
/var/spool/cups/tmp
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] PID 8125 
(/gnu/store/sa5f2am437p2zfz0awj3mg0j5wk6dl7a-cups-server-bin/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf)
 exited with no errors.
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] File contains 1 pages
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Starting renderer with command: gs 
-dShowAcroForm  -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -dNOMEDIAATTRS 
-dNOINTERPOLATE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs 
-sDeviceManufacturer=\"HEWLETT-PACKARD\" -sDeviceModel=\"HP LaserJet\" 
-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dDuplex=false -r300 
-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0,PS:MediaPosition=7
 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=-   /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-iD2WWS
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Starting process \"kid3\" (generation 1)
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Starting process \"kid4\" (generation 2)
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Starting process \"renderer\" 
(generation 2)
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] JCL: address@hidden
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] <job data>
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] sh: hpijs: command not found
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] GPL Ghostscript 9.23: Can\'t start ijs 
server \"hpijs\"
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] **** Unable to open the initial device, 
quitting.
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] renderer exited with status 1
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] Possible error on renderer command line 
or PostScript error. Check options.Kid3 exit status: 3
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] PID 8126 
(/gnu/store/sa5f2am437p2zfz0awj3mg0j5wk6dl7a-cups-server-bin/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip)
 stopped with status 9.
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] PID 8127 
(/gnu/store/sa5f2am437p2zfz0awj3mg0j5wk6dl7a-cups-server-bin/lib/cups/backend/usb)
 exited with no errors.
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] End of messages
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] printer-state=3(idle)
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] printer-state-message="Filter failed"
D [20/Jul/2018:11:27:01 +0200] [Job 1] printer-state-reasons=none
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think the issue is that the hpijs command is missing.
On Debian, it's packaged as

 /usr/bin/hpijs  printer-driver-hpijs [not powerpc]

Do we need this piece of software?

--
Pierre Neidhardt

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