Canon BJC-255SP printing set-up problems with CUPS

[Wolfgang]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 20:34, Matt H. wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying to setup my Canon BJC-255SP printer locally (/dev/lp0) with the
> CUPS printing sub-system. Has anyone got this printer (or similar) working?
> 
> redhat-config-printer successfully installed it, but test jobs are not
> working (i.e. nothing prints!).
> 
> The output of /var/log/cups/error_log suggests that the device used,
> "bjccolor" is unknown. `gs -h` confirms this and the only similar device
> available would probably be "bjc600". 
> 
> Errors:
>  
> D [09/Mar/2004:18:31:51+1000] [Job 7] renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH 
> -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bjccolor-sPrinterType=BJC-250'
> D[09/Mar/2004:18:31:51 +1000] [Job 7] foomatic-gswrapper: gs'-dBATCH'
> '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET''-dNOPAUSE''-sDEVICE=bjccolor''-sPrinterType=.. 
> D[09/Mar/2004:18:31:51+1000] [Job 7] Unknown device: bjccolor
> 
> Ultimately, I always end up with this error every time:
> D [09/Mar/2004:18:31:51 +1000] [Job 7] Possible error on renderer command
> line or PostScript error. Check options.
> E [09/Mar/2004:18:31:51 +1000] PID 1966 stopped with status 3!
> 
> Some googling suggests to install ESP Ghostscript instead of GNU
> Ghostscript (which supposedly has "bjccolor" compiled in) but all
> attempts to do this fail with dependency issues. The error above also
> suggests to "check options", but damned if I knew where!
> 
> I've never been able to set up this printer properly in all RH versions in
> the past, despite the linuxprinting DB specifying this printing as status
> "works perfectly". ROFL..
> 
> *Any help/ideas/suggestions/etc would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Matt

The best thing I can suggest would be to pop over to this site:

http://www.turboprint.de/english.html

And get the demo version of this software, and run the printer from
there. I have both a Canon BJC-3000 & S830D using Turboprint and it
works great. CUPS's default printer drivers seem to work ok, but it
doesn't print properly for me. And Turboprint interfaces to CUPS as
well.

Wolf