After December, 18 update ML-1210 does not print

[Ansus]

After installing the recent CUPS update, printer Samsung ML-1210 does not work. Before the update all worked well.

No error reported.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
Please provide your cups error_log after your printer fails to print as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems#cupserrorlog

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Does removing your printer queue and reinstalling it work?

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Can you give the output of "ls -lh /etc/cups" here.
And please attach your current /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file here.

I have seen it an other bug, that on this precise date, a new cupsd.conf file that does not seems to work.
The old one being saved to cupsd.conf.0 I think.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Found it was bug #297787.

[Ansus (neptunia)]

Now all works well after deleting and reinstalling the printer.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Thanks you for that new information.

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

[Ansus (neptunia)]

Intrepid

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the cups error_log we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Furthermore you have indicated that all works well after deleting and reinstalling the printer. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Hans Hellén (hans-hellen)]

PPD/Driver is not shipped anymore in Ubuntu repositories, so it has to be provided manually from: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1210

[Hans Hellén (hans-hellen)]

Sorry, forgot to tell my distro: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Hans Hellén,

The driver is still shipped in Ubuntu repos on 10.04 LTS:
$ lpinfo -m | grep -i 'ml-1210'
foomatic:Samsung-ML-1210-gdi.ppd Samsung ML-1210 Foomatic/gdi (recommended)

Does your printer print with this driver if you select it manually?
System > Administation > Printing (system-config-printer):
Right-click your printer > Properties > Make and Model > Change ...

Perhaps your printer gets assigned the wrong driver automatically, can you run the following command in a terminal window and post the output here:
sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb

[Hans Hellén (hans-hellen)]

So, after trying with 10.04 Live-CD the PPD/Driver is there! It is in foomatic-db package (/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Samsung-ML-1210.xml) or something like that.

The reason for this confusion was, that after trying to get a HP printer (Bug #687404) to print wireless without success, manual hplip installation removed some foomatic packages – and did not reinstall those in the end. Quite annoying indeed.