[Foomatic] Re: Problems with foomatic and a Lexmark Z23

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Nov 4 04:32:32 PST 2004


Calvin Spealman wrote:
> CUPS says the printer is working fine and the pages are printing, but they are 
> not printing. This is my foomatic-rip.log which is the only thing even giving 
> any errors, except for /var/log/cups/error_log saying foomatic-rip exited with 
> a status 1, but with nothing about why. 
>  
> renderer PID kid4=26493 
> renderer command: lexmarkwrapper -r 600 -t 0 -c CMYK -m z33 -i business -d 5 
> -p /dev/usb/lp0 -A 16 -B 8 -C 16 -D 16 > /dev/null 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed. 
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: 
>         LANGUAGE = (unset), 
>         LC_ALL = (unset), 
>         LANG = "en" 
>     are supported and installed on your system. 
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). 
> sh: line 1: /dev/usb/lp0: Permission denied 
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> perl: warning: Setting locale failed. 
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: 

There is a "Permission denied" on /dev/usb/lp0. You need to make 
/dev/usb/lp0 read/write accessable for the CUPS special user (usually 
"lp" and the CUPS group (usually "sys"):

chmod 660 /dev/usb/lp0
chown lp.sys /dev/usb/lp0

    Till



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