Printer found but paused when printing

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Printer found but paused when printing

Hello all,

I am running a Samsung Printer CLP-315 on a Linux Printing server (via cups) and now, I am trying to print to it via 2 different Macs: One with Mac Server 10.6.8 and one MacBook with OS X Tiger 10.7.1. Unfortunately, both are not able to print. Here is what is happening:

I can perfectly add the printer via the System Settings and it perfectly finds my cups server with the correct printer and adds it without problems. But when I try to print something, the printer gets paused. In the job queue, the details of the printing job do say that the "target printer does not exist" (translated by me, I have a german Mac OS on both machines). So what? First, they find automatically the printer and then they say that what they found does not exist?

It is no problem of the print server, as I can print without any problems from other systems with linux on it. So it has to be a problem of both Mac OS X machines. Of course, I found that it may have to do with this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3165055?answerId=15575723022#15575723022 ; but as (in my case), Snow Leopard and Tiger are affected, I rather guess I should not revert both machines to 10.6.7.

Any ideas?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Aug 28, 2011 1:28 AM

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Khymon1 Author

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Aug 28, 2011 2:05 AM in response to Khymon1

I solved it, here is the solution:

On the Linux Box (Debian), the (full) URL to the printer queue is like this:

http://<ip-of-cups-server>:631/printers/<printername>

When Mac OS is looking for print servers, it finds:

- the IP of the cups server

- the name of the printing queue

Unfortunately, Mac OS does NOT find the path to the printing queue, so Mac OS does make the following entry as printing queue:

http://<ip-of-cups-server>/<printername>

The solution is:

- As print server, enter the IP of the cups server

- as printer name, enter /printers/<printername>

Important: Do not forget to switch to "ipp" in the pull-down menu, as on both of my systems, lpd is selected as default, so the URL starts with "lpd" and not with "ipp".

I did not test if it´s absolutely necessary to add the port (631), but I did it just to make everything correct.

Btw, I did not find any way to mark this discussion as solved - how does this work?

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