Printers

Here are the few printers I've got working so far with Debian...

HP printers and P1102

Canon IP1900

Canon Pixma E510

Brother DCP-J315W

CUPS admin

"Request entity too large" error

Can't get into the CUPS admin pages - http://localhost:631/admin pages can't be reached and the error log shows "unable to create directory /var/spool/cups/tmp"

so the spool directory likely needs creating!

sudo mkdir /var/spool/cups sudo mkdir /var/spool/cups/tmp  

if those are present already then they might need to belong to the lp group

sudo chown -R root:lp /var/spool/cups  

and your user needs to be added to the lp/lpadmin group

sudo adduser <user> lp sudo adduser <user> lpadmin  

the other error that will occur if your user is not added to the lp/lpadmin group is that logging into the admin page with your user name will return a failed unauthorized page.

Enable a user to resume a printer

To prevent CUPS asking for authentication of a user when using resume or pause printer in Cups Admin...