[plug] Canon S400 under RH6.2?

[Andrew Furey]

Hi guys,

As the title says, I've recently acquired an S400
which I've been trying to put on our gateway box
(hopefully to also be our print server). However,
there seems to be very little official support for
this printer.

I've tried integrating a couple of drivers I found
(.upp files) into the various RedHat files. It mostly
seems to work, but the debug file /tmp/filter.debug
(along with debugging stuff from a couple of other
scripts) produces the following:


Desired print format is ps
Paper size is a4
A form feed will not be sent.
Magic is |             PostScript document text
conforming at level 2.0|
Type of file is INPUT-to-ps
Best path of depth  is cat - | ps-to-printer.fpi
Unrecoverable error: typecheck in .putdeviceprops
(1488)op_array(586)0x81ca2c8:Execution stack at
0x81bf360:0x81d46e4: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000
0x08082a20 = %interp_exit
0x81d46ec: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x081caa80
0x81d46f4: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0000 0x08084170
0x81d46fc: 0x0b int  --F------ 0x03fa 0x0000001e = 30
0x81d4704: 0x0b int  --F------ 0x0007 0x00000004 = 4
0x81d470c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x08084150 =
%oparray_pop
0x81d4714: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0002 0x0821e514
0x81d471c: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0000 0x08084170
0x81d4724: 0x0b int  --F------ 0x0001 0x0000001e = 30
0x81d472c: 0x0b int  --F------ 0x0000 0x00000004 = 4
0x81d4734: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x08084150 =
%oparray_pop
0x81d473c: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x0821ef96
Dictionary stack at 0x81bf3c0:
0x81d4f14: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x081c6eec
0x81d4f1c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x0822d930
0x81d4f24: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x4000 0x081cedf8
0x81d4f2c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x081c6eec


(my apologies for the line wraps in inappropriate
places :(

This appears to be from one of the programs called by
ps-to-printer.fpi (a shell script), probably mpage. It
certainly looks like a fatal error.

Has anyone had any luck with this printer? Would
something like apsfilter be worth a try?

The printer seems to be detected properly, as cat
/proc/parport/0/* yields this:


CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:S400;
MANUFACTURER:Canon;
DESCRIPTION:Canon S400;
COMMAND SET:BJL,BJRaster3,BSCC,TXT01,BJScan2;
 lp
base:	0x378
irq:	7
dma:	none
modes:	SPP
7


I'm also fairly sure the printing subsystem in general
works, because a HP Deskjet 670C worked fine.

Any ideas, anyone?

TIA
Andrew

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