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/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed

Asked by Peter White

Hi

Trying to get my HP Photosmart Plus B210 working as a USB printer from my Raspberry Pi. Printer appears to install correctly but on printing a test page from CUPS I get /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed.

Trying to manually follow the filters, when running

/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcupsold 1 me '' 1 ''<out.ras >out.prn

I get

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what(): basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
Aborted

so looks like HPCUPS filter is broken?

Thanks for your help!

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Peter White (3eter) said : 		#1

UPDATE: I have managed to gain access to another printer: HP OfficeJet 6110 and this worked first time once configured in CUPS. Therefore must be a problem with the HP Photosmart Plus B210 configuration??

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Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14) said : 		#2

Hi,

Please try following things and see if you can print on Photosmart Plus B210 .
=> Download and install the latest HPLIP release from
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html (automatic installer) or
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/index.html (manual installation, if automatic installer does not work)

=> Reconfigure print queue with the commands in the terminal mentioned below.
       => system-config-printer (remove all print queues)
      => su -c "hp-plugin"
             or
      => sudo hp-plugin (This will download right plugin)
       => hp-setup (It should not be run in a root mode. This command is adding print queue, make sure you select ppd name having "-ps" or "hpcups" substring)
=>Try printing now.

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brian_p (claremont102) said : 		#3

The HPCUPS filter is not broken. The filter has to given some environment varaibles.

DEVICE_URI=<whatever> PPD=<PPD_location>
/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups 1 1 1 1 "'' cups-raster-data > out.prn

All on one line would be OK. "whatever" can be empty.

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