Brother HL-2130: CUPS, foomatic, hpijs

Brother HL-2130: CUPS, foomatic, hpijs

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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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:

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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: \033%-12345X@PJL
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
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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?

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Pierre Neidhardt

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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: \033%-12345X@PJL
> 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?

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

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi Alex,
thanks for the feedback.  I guess we've got to package hpijs then.
I'll give it a shot next time I need it (no promise).

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Pierre Neidhardt

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