Cups HP Printing Broken with F18 Recent Updates?

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

2013-03-08 22:58 keltezéssel, Tim Evans írta:
> Can't say when this started, but printing is now broken, with 
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed" errors on all print jobs, to both my printers. (HP 
> LJ 1300 and HP Officejet-pro-8600).
>
> Cups version is cups-1.5.4-20.fc18.i686  hplip/hpijsf are 3.13.2-1.fc18

I just upgraded yesterday, hpijs and hplip was upgraded and
it broke my HP LaserJet 1020 as well as I noticed today.

The solution in my case was to re-download/reinstall the
proprietary plugin for this hplip version by running "hp-plugin -i"
as root. The error I saw in the logs was:

Mar 10 14:22:28 localhost dbus[714]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism'
Mar 10 14:22:33 localhost systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Mar 10 14:22:33 localhost hpcups[10069]: common/utils.c 129: validate_plugin_version() 
Plugin version[3.12.6] mismatch with HPLIP version[3.13.2]
Mar 10 14:22:33 localhost hpcups[10069]: common/utils.c 156: Plugin version is not matching
Mar 10 14:22:33 localhost hpcups[10069]: common/utils.c 219: Invalid Library hanlder 
pLibHandler = NULL.
Mar 10 14:22:54 localhost systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.
Mar 10 14:22:58 localhost systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi