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OKI Data Corp B410 not detected (PPD attached)

Bug #603894 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 on 2010-07-10

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	foomatic-db (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cups

I bought a cheapo OKI Data Corp B410 USB/Parallel printer which is detected under Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, but it prompts me for a driver. It seems we don't ship the right driver for this printer. I extracted the PPD from the Mac OSX driver and went through the prompts in the add printer wizard on Ubuntu to add the PPD file to my 10.04 system. I then printed a test page which came out fine first time.

It looks like a fairly generic PCL printer.

I have attached the PPD to this bug report in the hope it can be included in Ubuntu or whatever config is required in Ubuntu to make this work can be done.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 10 09:26:17 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lpstat: device for OKI-DATA-CORP-B410: usb://OKI%20DATA%20CORP/B410
MachineType: Acer Aspire R3600
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: OKI-DATA-CORP-B410: Generic PCL Laser Printer
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=fe02a252-1f33-4beb-9504-0825d141d3b9 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups
dmi.bios.date: 05/22/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: R01-A1L
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MCP7A
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrR01-A1L:bd05/22/2009:svnAcer:pnAspireR3600:pvr:rvnAcer:rnMCP7A:rvr:cvnAcer:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Aspire R3600
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

OKI_DATA_CORP_B410.ppd Edit (9.6 KiB, text/plain)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (43.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CupsErrorLog.txt Edit (647 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (27.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locale.txt Edit (305 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (414 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PrintingPackages.txt Edit (693 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (103.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (215.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2010-07-10:

The PPD uses the filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertohp, so it should even work, as this filter is part of the "cups" package.

Please follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and "USB printer" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems. Thanks.

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

error_log Edit (284.7 KiB, text/plain)

Thanks for the prompt response Till. Am attaching all those files.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

lpinfo Edit (147 bytes, text/plain)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

ls_devices Edit (552 bytes, text/plain)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

lsmod_grep_usb Edit (177 bytes, text/plain)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

lsusb Edit (415 bytes, text/plain)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

messages Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-07-10:

usb_printerid Edit (137 bytes, text/plain)

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David Murphy (schwuk) wrote on 2010-07-15:

#10

Same experience as Alan on 10.04 LTS. Using the attached PPD worked fine.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2010-07-16:

#11

Sprry I did not see that the printer worked fine for you with the attached PPD file. So the attached files were not needed. The PPD uses a generic PCL 5e driver which is part of the CUPS package. It has nothing specific for your printer model, it simp[ly does PCL 5e. So I will add your printer as a PCL 5e printer to the OpenPrinting database and then in one of the next foomatic-db packages for Maverick this printer will be explicitly supported.

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → In Progress
affects:	cups (Ubuntu) → foomatic-db (Ubuntu)

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2010-07-16:

#12

Updated upstream in BZR repository of foomatic-db. You will find the printer on the OpenPrinting web site now. It is even capable of PCL 6/XL ("pxlmono" driver), according to the "usb_printerid" output which you have attached.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2010-07-16:

#13

Thank you for the contribution. Another printer which will "Plug'n'Print" in future Linux distributions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-08-06:

#14

This bug was fixed in the package foomatic-db - 20100806-0ubuntu1

---------------
foomatic-db (20100806-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

* New upstream release
- Correction in ChangeLog

foomatic-db (20100804-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Didier Raboud ]
  * New upstream release
    - New Oki Data Corp B410 (LP: #603894)
    - Lexmark E120 uses PostScript (LP: #548747)

* Putting under Debian Printing Group umbrella.

foomatic-db (20100630-1) unstable; urgency=low

* New upstream release
(Closes: #580351)

  * Merge from Ubuntu:
    - postinst's: PPD auto updaters:
      "If the package is updated, it is checked whether existing
       queues use PPDs of this package and if yes, the PPDs get
       updated." (Till)
      Closes: #370335, #437309
    - Split openprinting-ppds into {,-extra}
    - Link the PPD files in the foomatic database
    - Rewrite some descriptions, shorten others.
    - Merge most of the package relationships.
    - Install the apport hook on Ubuntu
    - Remove non-PPD files from the repository, Closes: #546784
    - Remove entries for non-existing drivers.
    - Fix common errors in PPDs that make CUPS choke, Closes: #493104

  * Add myself to Uploaders as I'll help Chris in maintaining foomatic-db.
  * Convert to 3.0 (quilt) source format.
  * Convert to tiny dh7 style.
  * Add misc:Depends.
  * debian/watch: update.
  * Add Vcs-* fields with new packaging repository.
  * Compress PPDs with gzip --best
  * Merge Till's changelog entries.
  * Update README.Debian.
  * Bump Standards to 3.9.0.0 - Rework some Conflicts/Replaces/Breaks.
-- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:15:03 +0200

Changed in foomatic-db (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote on 2010-08-08:

#15

Any chance of adding this printer in a Lucid SRU?

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