pstoraster failed

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:17:01PM -0700, David L wrote:
> When I try to print a test page to an HP 7210 in f14 alpha
> from system-config-printer, I get a dialogue saying that "there
> was a problem processing document" and a printer state that
> says:
> Idle: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed
> 
> When I try to run hp-setup to add the printer, I get an error
> that says printer queue setup failed.  Please restart cups and
> start again.  I tried restarting cups and get the same message.
> 
> The same printer works fine in f13 and I don't remember having
> any problem setting it up there.

Judging from the forums, hplip might be broken.  I've not been able to
consistently prove that--in my experience, it would sometimes work,
other times, it would print but not scan.  In each case, when I removed
it and then installed from source, at hplipopensource.com (using the
manual install with tarball, not the wizard), it would work. 

(I might have had to do hp-setup -i <ip_address>, it's been awhile.) 

I wasn't able to reproduce the problem consistently, so haven't filed a
bug, but I have noticed, as mentioned, that others on Fedora forums have
had similar experiences. 

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