Minolta PagePro 1300W doesn't work

I have the same situation with Minolta PagePro 1200W.

I've the same problem with a Konica Minolta 2400w and drivers m2300/2400w from m2300w.sf.net.
It was working fine under Breezy, but nothing happens (no printing at all) with Dapper :(
So at the moment, I can't print at all under my ubuntu linux, need to reboot under windows for this.

I followed this howto:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Konica_Minolta_printers_with_CUPS_and_FOOMATIC
I mean I downloaded Minolta-PagePro_1200W-min12xxw.ppd and I copied them to the proper directory and I downloaded min12xxw-0.0.9.tar.gz, I did
./configure
./make
./make install
and my Minolta PagePro 1200W printer start printing :o)

please could you recheck this after an upgrade to dapper 2006-04-14?

With respect to Minolta Magicolor 2400W: Still doesn't work (I did an instalaltion from the source; converting the rpm-package on sf.net to a deb using alien didn't work either).

I am not sure whether this error report and the Magicolor-issue are the same (see bug #29966 for more details about the printing problems of the 2400W).

Regards

Erich

I have the same problem for PagePro 1350W. However, I see this:

root@beech:~# echo > /dev/usblp0
bash: /dev/usblp0: Device or resource busy

Is it a kernel problem instead of cupsys?

I got dapper upgraded today (2006-04-25) and this printer still doesn't want to work :(

I really don't know what's going on because this printer is detected and installed by cups I can send some print works to this printer and I even can see printer status icon in notification area.

But it still doesn't want to start printing... It's not hardware problem because this printer works good with windows and some time ago this printer even worked with Breezy (!).

Martin, do you still “Needs Info"?

When my printer plugs in /dev/usblp0 works (like bug 34971)
But once I used CUPS to print anything, the device is locked, and I can no longer print anything.

I experience the exact same problem after an upgrade from breezy to dapper. my pagepro 1300w is well detected by cups, but nothing is printed whenever a job is sent to it. gnome tells me it is printing, but it is not. i have min12xxw installed from apt-get.

this stuff is really annoying: i have to reboot under windows for printing.

Can you please upgrade to the latest dapper versions and then do
:
  sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys stop
  sudo rm /var/log/cups/*
  sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start

then (attempt to) print something, and then attach /var/log/cups/error_log here? Thank you!

I think that now I understand what is the problem...

I got two error messages in error_log:

Creating missing directory "/var/run/cups/certs"

And another

CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized

And when I want to add new printer then it is not detected by gnome cups GUI.
And I can add this printer manually but is seems not to be connected anywhere.

Because in printer properties I can see that it is local printer and "Use a detected printer" field is inactive - I got "Use another printer by specifying a port" but Printer port is "hp no_device_found"

And there is printer icon in printers dialog and status is 'ready' but no printing at all.

If you can solve this I would be very happy because currently I can use this printer connected to another machine running windows.

The two error messages are harmless and occur every time. If this is a parallel port printer, then the latest cups version (1.2.0-0ubuntu2) may help, which loads the 'lp' and 'ppdev' modules at start. This should fix automatic detection of the printer. However, that will probably not fix the actual printing. Is there anything else in the error_log?

there are no errors written to the /var/log/cups/error_log file in my case.

No there is nothing else in error_log.

I'm sure that the problem is not with cups and driver but with connectivity. I really don't understand why there is no way to select USB port.

Of course this printer should be detected 'automagically' but it is not - and more if I try to set printer manually then there is no way to select usb port.

As I said earlier 'hp no_device_found' as the only available port is propably main problem.

I upgraded to new cups 1.2.0-0ubuntu2 but nothing changed.

This printer is USB only device.
You can find more details here:
http://www.printer-konicaminolta.com/sg/product/mono/pagepro_1300w/kmproduct_specs

And I cleaned error_log again and now this is an output:
E [11/May/2006:20:30:04 +0200] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [11/May/2006:20:54:52 +0200] [Job 5] No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!

But more interesting part is from /var/log/messages:
May 11 20:47:52 localhost kernel: [4364788.277000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
May 11 20:54:52 localhost no_device_found: invalid ModelQueryResult: msg=modelqueryresult result-code=48 prnt/hpijs/h plip_api.c 396
May 11 20:54:52 localhost no_device_found: INFO: open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds...
May 11 20:55:22 localhost no_device_found: INFO: open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds...
May 11 20:55:52 localhost no_device_found: unable to send Event hp:/no_device_found 5 5012: Broken pipe
May 11 20:55:52 localhost no_device_found: INFO: open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds...

while /var/log/cups/access_log says:

localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:27:05 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1214 CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:27:10 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 502662 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:28:24 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1214 CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:28:27 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 502662 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:29:19 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1214 CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:29:22 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 502662 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:30:04 +0200] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 294 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - root [11/May/2006:20:30:04 +0200] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 294 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:30:11 +0200] "GET /ppd/PagePro-1300W.ppd HTTP/1.1" 200 22475 - -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:30:11 +0200] "GET /ppd/PagePro-1300W.ppd HTTP/1.1" 200 22475 - -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:30:11 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 502662 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:30:13 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1214 CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:54:52 +0200] "POST /printers/PagePro-1300W HTTP/1.1" 200 153667 - successful-ok
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:54:52 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 369 Get-Jobs successful-ok
localhost - - [11/May/2006:20:54:52 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 393 Get-Jobs successful-ok

Hope this will help to make this printer usable on ubuntu.
And the most funny thing is that this printer was workable on dapper (!).

I confirm that my 1350W is still not working. Printer is detected. Manually printing to /dev/lp0 works. Just cups doesn't work. Details attached.

dmesg shows:
[4618112.412000] usb 5-8.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
[4618112.503000] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x0686 pid 0x300B

These commands print a postscript file w/o problem.
cat PS_FILE | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | min12xxw -m 1350W -f a4 -r 600 | sudo dd of=/dev/usblp0

I use gnome-cups-manager to "Print Test Page". This is shown in the logs:
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[0]="PagePro-1350W"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[1]="7"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[2]="sltam"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[3]="Test Page"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[4]="1"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[5]="job-uuid=urn:uuid:8e273b75-64a3-366c-785d-6ccc64536ff8"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] argv[6]="/var/spool/cups/d00007-001"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[0]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[1]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[2]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/cups/doc-root"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[4]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[7]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[8]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[9]="<email address hidden>"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[10]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.2.0"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[11]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[12]="TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[13]="USER=root"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[15]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[16]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[17]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[18]="LANG=en_US"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[19]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/PagePro-1350W.ppd"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[20]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[21]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/postscript"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[22]="DEVICE_URI=usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/PP1350W"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[23]="PRINTER=PagePro-1350W"
D [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] [Job 7] envp[24]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=printer/PagePro-1350W"
I [28/May/2006:15:37:02 +0800] Started filter /u...

I think this is the unexpected thing.

root@beech:~# /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip -P PagePro-1350W /var/spool/cups/d00007-001
<a few strange characters here>

Then the terminal freezes, even for Ctrl-C.

1350W also doesn't work for me. I tried to compile own min12xxw driver and use different PPD file, but it all sitll the same. Cups webpage says: "Printer off-line." :(

I can send any job to printer manually as described in min12xxw manpage, but cups seem to have anything broken. Here's a list from 'ps ax' command:

18157 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 32 guest Test Page 1 job-uuid=urn:uuid:1298b934-f3f2-3476-5143-668219deab2a
18158 ? S 0:00 usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/PP1350W 32 guest Test Page 1 job-uuid=urn:uuid:1298b934-f3f2-3476-5143-668219deab2a
18160 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 32 guest Test Page 1 job-uuid=urn:uuid:1298b934-f3f2-3476-5143-668219deab2a
18161 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 32 guest Test Page 1 job-uuid=urn:uuid:1298b934-f3f2-3476-5143-668219deab2a
18162 ? S 0:00 sh -c foomatic-gswrapper -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | min12xxw -m 1350W -f a4 -r 600 -p normal -t auto
18163 ? S 0:00 sh -c gs '-dNOPAUSE' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=pbmraw' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595' '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842' '-r600' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1
18164 ? S 0:00 min12xxw -m 1350W -f a4 -r 600 -p normal -t auto
18165 ? S 0:00 gs -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r600 -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 /dev/fd/0

By the way, is there any chance loggin to CUPS admin page with root privileges? I was trying to create accounts with lppasswd, but CUPS still refuses to log me in.

I have a 1300W connected to usb as well. As a workaround I use

DeviceURI file:///dev/usblp0

in /etc/cups/printers.conf, which works instead of

DeviceURI usb://KONICA/MINOLTA%20PP1300W

and printing works fine.

Many thanks to you, it works for now :)

@Pitti :
"DeviceURI file:///dev/usblp0
in /etc/cups/printers.conf, which works instead of
DeviceURI usb://KONICA/MINOLTA%20PP1300W"

sound like an udev bug no ?

It's not an udev bug. Rather, I suspect a problem with the URI encoding. What is the output of 'lpinfo -v' for you while the printer is turned on?

>> lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
network http
network ipp
direct usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/PP1300W
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp0
network smb

changing my /etc/cups/printers.conf (with DeviceURI file:///dev/usblp0) also worked for me!! Thanks for your input

I am so happy! Thank you for this solution. I hope this thing is fixed in the next distr-update.

Just went through cups.org bugtracker, looks like this bug is similar to

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1738

HTH,
     Stefan.

while changing the "printers.conf" from

"DeviceURI usb://KONICA%20MINOLTA/PP1300W" to "DeviceURI file:///dev/usblp0", it works pretty fine when you start printing from dapper,. However, if you are trying to make this printer work as a network printer, i.e dapper act as a print server, especially from windows machine, it just do not print at all. Not via ipp printing, not via smb printing. When I check the prin job log, it shows there that print jobs completed successfully, but nothing comes out from the printer at all. Anyone face with this problem or is it just me?

regards,

Hi all,

the "DeviceURI file:///dev/usblp0" solution doesn't work for me!

I've successfully done the installation under Breezy, through some changes in the .PPD file, but they doesn't work on Dapper.

@ Macs

I guess you aren't running 2.6.15 kernel.

@Ante

My kernel it's ok.
I think "my instance" of this bug it's related with https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/37554