Re: Brother HL-2130: CUPS, foomatic, hpijs

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Pierre,

FWIW, I have the same printer and have run into the same problems.  I
think you might be onto somethingwith the hpijs requirement.  I have not
gotten around to trying that though!

Alex

Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> 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?