CUPS/Printing/Scanning weirdness

[KenGordon]

Now this issue is strange....at least to me. My system is running a new installation of FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5, MATE desktop, CUPS installed, printer/scanner/fax is an HP OfficeJet Pro 9135e, which is connected to my LAN wirelessly. I can ping the printers IP address and it answers promptly. I have provided a wpa_supplicant.conf. CUPS finds and permits me to install the printer, xsane sees and can access the scanner, including its ADF, so everything should be ready to go, right?

Then how come I cannot print to the printer, CUPS returning, "Unable to locate printer "HP28C5CD0995.local".", xsane returning "Scanner not connected", and HP-Device Manager cannot find the entire unit, nor can hplip find it.

It is as though communications with the printer is one-way only, and any "reply" from the printer is being blocked somewhere.

I have no firewall activated at this point.

Searching on this forum and on the web most of today results in nothing helpful at this point.

Might anyone have any ideas?

Ken Gordon

 

[covacat]

try to add HP28C5CD0995.local to /etc/hosts

 

[W.hâ/t]

try to add HP28C5CD0995.local to /etc/hosts

Somehow it didn't work for me and I had to reconfigure cups to use an ip address. I don't understand why.

The printer's address has been configured to use zeroconf. It doesn't hurt to look at the handbook for mdns/dns-sd configuration.

 

[scottro]

I'm going to spam my own page https://srobb.net/cliscanprint.html#FreeBSD I use a Brother printer/scanner, but it should work with HP. Another test, (for printing), assuming your IP for the printer is 192.168.1.50, would be

 nc 192.168.1.50 9100 < testfile.pdf

with testfile.pdf being any pdf file you have. That's using netcat to print it.