• Re: CUPS Printing

    From nospam@21:1/5 to gtr on Tue Oct 5 20:51:56 2021
    In article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    which model ricoh, what error did it give and did you use the correct
    driver, which should install automatically?

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  • From gtr@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 6 00:49:28 2021
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to nospam on Wed Oct 6 05:35:41 2021
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:51:56 PM PDT, "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    In article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    which model ricoh, what error did it give and did you use the correct
    driver, which should install automatically?

    Ricoh Aficio SP C242SF.
    "Scanner reported and error. An error occured while communicating with the scanner."
    Nothing related to Ricoh ever installed automatically when I bought it some
    10+ years ago, but I've updated drivers as systems changed. Currently driver 2.03 PS driver and ICA 1.02 for the scanner.
    Printer works find and always has. Scanner won't respond.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to gtr on Wed Oct 6 22:42:57 2021
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:49:28 PM PDT, "gtr" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    I managed to figure it out to my satisfaction. Ricoh's driver for networked
    use is limited to the printer, and I figure their hurry-up programmers didn't do the scanner communications right. I've hooked up the USB line to the
    printer and that works fine for for scanning and printing; so I'll go with that.

    Still curious to know if CUPS is of any value. I noted an error in the console from a few months back.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Wed Oct 6 16:34:38 2021
    On 2021-10-06 3:42 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:49:28 PM PDT, "gtr" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    I managed to figure it out to my satisfaction. Ricoh's driver for networked use is limited to the printer, and I figure their hurry-up programmers didn't do the scanner communications right. I've hooked up the USB line to the printer and that works fine for for scanning and printing; so I'll go with that.

    Still curious to know if CUPS is of any value. I noted an error in the console
    from a few months back.


    CUPS stands for "Common Unix Printing System"...

    ...and has nothing do with scanning.

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to gtr on Thu Oct 7 03:50:45 2021
    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by
    TWAIN or something similar.


    --
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    Daughter: Duh.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 7 04:01:35 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 4:34:38 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 3:42 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:49:28 PM PDT, "gtr" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >>> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >>> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    I managed to figure it out to my satisfaction. Ricoh's driver for networked >> use is limited to the printer, and I figure their hurry-up programmers didn't
    do the scanner communications right. I've hooked up the USB line to the
    printer and that works fine for for scanning and printing; so I'll go with >> that.

    Still curious to know if CUPS is of any value. I noted an error in the console
    from a few months back.


    CUPS stands for "Common Unix Printing System"...

    ...and has nothing do with scanning.

    Right you are but that wasn't my question. My question: "Is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?"

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to Lewis on Thu Oct 7 04:03:45 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years, so it is apparently used for printing in special circumstances. What would those be? Printing directly from the unix CLI alone?

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current scanning processes.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Wed Oct 6 21:27:06 2021
    On 2021-10-06 9:01 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 4:34:38 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 3:42 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:49:28 PM PDT, "gtr" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    I managed to figure it out to my satisfaction. Ricoh's driver for networked >>> use is limited to the printer, and I figure their hurry-up programmers didn't
    do the scanner communications right. I've hooked up the USB line to the
    printer and that works fine for for scanning and printing; so I'll go with >>> that.

    Still curious to know if CUPS is of any value. I noted an error in the console
    from a few months back.


    CUPS stands for "Common Unix Printing System"...

    ...and has nothing do with scanning.

    Right you are but that wasn't my question. My question: "Is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?"


    And my question to you would be:

    Have you done any checking AT ALL into this on your own.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Wed Oct 6 21:28:21 2021
    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >>> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >>> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    so it is apparently used for
    printing in special circumstances. What would those be? Printing directly from
    the unix CLI alone?

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current scanning processes.

    Given that you don't understand what CUPS has been doing for you, you'll understand if I doubt your expertise to declare that.

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to Gerry on Thu Oct 7 04:52:02 2021
    In message <sjlrj1$nuo$1@dont-email.me> Gerry <address@domain.com> wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >>> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >>> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on macOS (née OS X) you haven't. You may not have realized it, but
    the printing subsystem on MacOS is CUPS. It is also used in various
    flavors of Linux.

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current scanning processes.

    Thus "or something similar".

    --
    Get in there you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 7 05:53:23 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:27:06 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:01 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 4:34:38 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> >> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 3:42 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:49:28 PM PDT, "gtr" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    I managed to figure it out to my satisfaction. Ricoh's driver for networked
    use is limited to the printer, and I figure their hurry-up programmers didn't
    do the scanner communications right. I've hooked up the USB line to the >>>> printer and that works fine for for scanning and printing; so I'll go with >>>> that.

    Still curious to know if CUPS is of any value. I noted an error in the console
    from a few months back.


    CUPS stands for "Common Unix Printing System"...

    ...and has nothing do with scanning.

    Right you are but that wasn't my question. My question: "Is CUPS of any use >> with moder versions of the mac OS?"


    And my question to you would be:

    Have you done any checking AT ALL into this on your own.

    I'm doing that now, but I appreciate the idea that I should ask someone else before asking you.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to Lewis on Thu Oct 7 05:55:36 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:52:02 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjlrj1$nuo$1@dont-email.me> Gerry <address@domain.com> wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on macOS (née OS X) you haven't. You may not have realized it, but
    the printing subsystem on MacOS is CUPS. It is also used in various
    flavors of Linux.

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current
    scanning processes.

    Thus "or something similar".

    What's similar?

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Gerry on Thu Oct 7 18:43:34 2021
    On 2021-10-06 05:35:41 +0000, Gerry said:

    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:51:56 PM PDT, "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    In article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >>> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >>> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    which model ricoh, what error did it give and did you use the correct
    driver, which should install automatically?

    Ricoh Aficio SP C242SF.
    "Scanner reported and error. An error occured while communicating with the scanner."
    Nothing related to Ricoh ever installed automatically when I bought it some 10+ years ago, but I've updated drivers as systems changed. Currently driver 2.03 PS driver and ICA 1.02 for the scanner.
    Printer works find and always has. Scanner won't respond.

    I know you've found a solution now, but this sounds the same to the
    problem many of us HP users had a little while back - same problem and
    error message.

    In that case the problem wasn't with the devices nor the driver
    software itself. It was reportedly caused by Apple (possibly at HP's
    request) expiring the valdiation certificates for the old versions of
    the drivers. Suddenly everything just stopped working. Installing
    updated drivers helped some people either fully or partially (printing,
    but still no scanning). For those of us with mainly older "outdated"
    devices that HP couldn't be bothered updating drivers for, we had to
    wait for Apple / HP to fix the problem at their end and re-establish
    the validation. From memory it took a few days, but just as suddenly
    started working again.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 7 05:57:19 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:28:21 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    From somewhere on the net I was supposed to look before asking anything here:

    "So my advice would be to disable CUPS if you are not printing anything on a public network. One way to do this is by killing the CUPS Daemon from the terminal. Just type in ps ax | grep cupsd and then sudo kill -9 PID# (where PID# is the first number in the output of the ps command) and it's dead Jim!"

    There other other disables, one of which I used.


    so it is apparently used for
    printing in special circumstances. What would those be? Printing directly from
    the unix CLI alone?

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current
    scanning processes.

    Given that you don't understand what CUPS has been doing for you, you'll understand if I doubt your expertise to declare that.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 7 05:55:01 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:28:21 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    Yes I have: I disabled it personally and directly in the terminal.

    so it is apparently used for
    printing in special circumstances. What would those be? Printing directly from
    the unix CLI alone?

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current
    scanning processes.

    Given that you don't understand what CUPS has been doing for you, you'll understand if I doubt your expertise to declare that.

    Thank you for your complete lack of input.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Wed Oct 6 23:43:28 2021
    On 2021-10-06 10:55 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:28:21 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    Yes I have: I disabled it personally and directly in the terminal.

    Bullshit.


    so it is apparently used for
    printing in special circumstances. What would those be? Printing directly from
    the unix CLI alone?

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current
    scanning processes.

    Given that you don't understand what CUPS has been doing for you, you'll
    understand if I doubt your expertise to declare that.

    Thank you for your complete lack of input.


    Thank YOU for your complete lack of honesty.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 7 02:44:00 2021
    In article <sjm27v$kql$1@dont-email.me>, Gerry <address@domain.com>
    wrote:


    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    From somewhere on the net I was supposed to look before asking anything here:

    "So my advice would be to disable CUPS if you are not printing anything on a public network. One way to do this is by killing the CUPS Daemon from the terminal. Just type in ps ax | grep cupsd and then sudo kill -9 PID# (where PID# is the first number in the output of the ps command) and it's dead Jim!"

    that quote is from here: <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031124044732910>

    which is *eighteen* years old and stupid advice.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Wed Oct 6 23:49:31 2021
    On 2021-10-06 10:57 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:28:21 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    From somewhere on the net I was supposed to look before asking anything here:

    "So my advice would be to disable CUPS if you are not printing anything on a public network. One way to do this is by killing the CUPS Daemon from the terminal. Just type in ps ax | grep cupsd and then sudo kill -9 PID# (where PID# is the first number in the output of the ps command) and it's dead Jim!"

    There other other disables, one of which I used.

    So you took advice from 2003?

    Tell you what:

    Use the terminal command "cupsctl" and see what it says.

    agbaker$ cupsctl
    _debug_logging=0
    _remote_admin=0
    _remote_any=0
    _share_printers=0
    _user_cancel_any=0
    BrowseLocalProtocols=dnssd
    DefaultAuthType=Basic
    JobPrivateAccess=default
    JobPrivateValues=default
    PageLogFormat=
    SubscriptionPrivateAccess=default
    SubscriptionPrivateValues=default
    WebInterface=No

    And CUPS is used for printers connected by USB, too.

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to Gerry on Thu Oct 7 13:28:26 2021
    In message <sjm27v$kql$1@dont-email.me> Gerry <address@domain.com> wrote:
    "So my advice would be to disable CUPS if you are not printing anything on a public network. One way to do this is by killing the CUPS Daemon from the terminal. Just type in ps ax | grep cupsd and then sudo kill -9 PID# (where PID# is the first number in the output of the ps command) and it's dead Jim!"

    And as soon as you print, the service restarts. I believe this even
    includes if you "print" to PDF, but I am not sure about that.

    --
    “Man, that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white
    boy like that.

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to Gerry on Thu Oct 7 13:26:07 2021
    In message <sjm23l$k71$1@dont-email.me> Gerry <address@domain.com> wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:28:21 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis" <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    Yes I have: I disabled it personally and directly in the terminal.

    No, you haven't. CUPS is how all printing on mac works. It even
    replaces the lp command line utility, same as on Fedora and other flavors
    of linux.


    Given that you don't understand what CUPS has been doing for you, you'll
    understand if I doubt your expertise to declare that.

    Thank you for your complete lack of input.

    You asked about CUPS, you were given answers, and then you demonstrated
    that not only did you not care about the answer, you were completely
    uninformed and protecting your willful ignorance

    --
    The universe doesn't much care if you tread on a butterfly. There are
    plenty more butterflies. Gods might note the fall of a sparrow
    but they don't make any effort to catch them. --Lords and Ladies

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  • From JF Mezei@21:1/5 to gtr on Thu Oct 7 17:48:52 2021
    On 2021-10-05 20:49, gtr wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?


    I am not sure CUPS does "scanning". Its purpose is to take printabel
    output and either send it to printer or use a "plug in" to convert the printable stuff into the format needed for that specific printer.

    For instance, I have CUPS on my server with a plug in that converts the postscript to Digital,s SIXEL bitmaps to print onto a dot matrix label
    printer.

    Perhaps newer versions handle incoming data, but to me CUPS has always
    been mostly from server to printer in terms of data flow outside of
    protocol (there is some back and forth for protocol and postcript commands).


    As an example, my newer Canon printer is set to postscript only, and I
    just put in a .PPD file on moth server and desktop and voila. For
    scanning, the Canon "printer" uses totally separate protocols, such as
    SMB or email to send documents back to a computer and doesn't use any
    printing protocols.

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  • From Wolffan@21:1/5 to gtr on Thu Oct 7 21:36:34 2021
    On 2021 Oct 05, gtr wrote
    (in article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>):

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS has nothing to do with scanning.

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  • From Wolffan@21:1/5 to Gerry on Thu Oct 7 21:35:49 2021
    On 2021 Oct 07, Gerry wrote
    (in article <sjm23l$k71$1@dont-email.me>):

    On Oct 6, 2021 at 9:28:21 PM PDT, "Alan Baker"<notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 9:03 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 8:50:45 PM PDT, "Lewis"<g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message<sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of
    any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS is how Unix prints, so yes it is used for PRINTING in macOS.

    I've been printing without using CUPS for years,

    Not on Mac OS you haven't.

    Yes I have: I disabled it personally and directly in the terminal.

    Son, CUPS is how you print on a Mac. (And some other UNIX systems.) If you
    kill ir, it will restart the next time you run a print job.. If you do something to kill it so that it can’t restart you won’t be able to print.

    CUPS on my Mac lists every print job, including print-to-PDF, going back to
    Dec 2019, that being the last time that I updated it. I see that there’s a new update. I see that there’s a ’new’ update, as of April 2020. I may download and install it.

    AFAIK you could kill CUPS and have it stay dead up to about Tiger or Panther, but after that it would rise from the dead, and it wouldn’t take three
    days, either.

    If you have been printing on a Mac since Panther or Tiger, I can’t remember which one and can’t be arsed to look it up, you’ve been printing using CUPS. Period. Saying different merely makes you look stupid.


    so it is apparently used for
    printing in special circumstances. What would those be? Printing directly from
    the unix CLI alone?

    It has nothing to do with scanning AFAIK, that is usually handled by TWAIN or
    something similar.

    Twain has been dead for many years so it has nothing to do with current scanning processes.

    Given that you don't understand what CUPS has been doing for you, you'll understand if I doubt your expertise to declare that.

    Thank you for your complete lack of input.

    You’re not just wrong, you’re loud wrong.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Wolffan on Fri Oct 8 15:12:47 2021
    On 2021-10-08 01:36:34 +0000, Wolffan said:
    On 2021 Oct 05, gtr wrote
    (in article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>):

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS has nothing to do with scanning.

    Nobody ever said it did ... as it says "wholly unrelated".

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Your Name on Thu Oct 7 23:07:10 2021
    On 2021-10-07 7:12 p.m., Your Name wrote:
    On 2021-10-08 01:36:34 +0000, Wolffan said:
    On 2021 Oct 05, gtr wrote
    (in article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>):

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It
    keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS
    of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS has nothing to do with scanning.

    Nobody ever said it did ... as it says "wholly unrelated".


    And then when you were told not only was it of use but essential to
    printing on a Mac, your response was essentially "Nuh-uh! I know better
    than all of you!"

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 11 02:34:19 2021
    On Oct 7, 2021 at 11:07:10 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-07 7:12 p.m., Your Name wrote:
    On 2021-10-08 01:36:34 +0000, Wolffan said:
    On 2021 Oct 05, gtr wrote
    (in article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>):

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It
    keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS
    of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS has nothing to do with scanning.

    Nobody ever said it did ... as it says "wholly unrelated".


    And then when you were told not only was it of use but essential to
    printing on a Mac, your response was essentially "Nuh-uh! I know better
    than all of you!"

    My "do your homework" homework indicated it di not. I disabled CUPS via terminal as a result of "do your homework" homework. When checked it continues to say it is disabled, while I continue to print.

    I never saied I new better than all of you, because I don't. That's why I'm here. But most of you find some petty jihad to keep your fire burning usually on a secondary topic or an incidental phrase having to do with the question. Again.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to Wolffan on Mon Oct 11 02:32:06 2021
    On Oct 7, 2021 at 6:36:34 PM PDT, "Wolffan" <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

    On 2021 Oct 05, gtr wrote
    (in article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>):

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >> use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS has nothing to do with scanning.

    No one said it did.

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to gtr on Mon Oct 11 02:38:44 2021
    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:49:28 PM PDT, "gtr" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    In answer to your question, yes CUPs remains important to printing as it handles much of the traffic regardless of which printers you have and what variety.

    You may think you've disabled it but when it gets a request to print, in enables itself anew or something like that.

    In addition you're a liar, need to do your homework and are the reason all of mankind has ills of one kind or another. Damn you to hell!!

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 11 02:31:52 2021
    On Oct 7, 2021 at 2:48:52 PM PDT, "JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

    On 2021-10-05 20:49, gtr wrote:
    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps >> returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any >> use with moder versions of the mac OS?


    I am not sure CUPS does "scanning". Its purpose is to take printabel
    output and either send it to printer or use a "plug in" to convert the printable stuff into the format needed for that specific printer.

    My question was unrelated to scanning. Poking around trying to figure out how to make the scanning work had me pondering another issue; CUPS.

    For instance, I have CUPS on my server with a plug in that converts the postscript to Digital,s SIXEL bitmaps to print onto a dot matrix label printer.

    Perhaps newer versions handle incoming data, but to me CUPS has always
    been mostly from server to printer in terms of data flow outside of
    protocol (there is some back and forth for protocol and postcript commands).


    As an example, my newer Canon printer is set to postscript only, and I
    just put in a .PPD file on moth server and desktop and voila. For
    scanning, the Canon "printer" uses totally separate protocols, such as
    SMB or email to send documents back to a computer and doesn't use any printing protocols.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Sun Oct 10 22:03:11 2021
    On 2021-10-10 7:34 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 7, 2021 at 11:07:10 PM PDT, "Alan Baker" <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    On 2021-10-07 7:12 p.m., Your Name wrote:
    On 2021-10-08 01:36:34 +0000, Wolffan said:
    On 2021 Oct 05, gtr wrote
    (in article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>):

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It >>>>> keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS >>>>> of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    CUPS has nothing to do with scanning.

    Nobody ever said it did ... as it says "wholly unrelated".


    And then when you were told not only was it of use but essential to
    printing on a Mac, your response was essentially "Nuh-uh! I know better
    than all of you!"

    My "do your homework" homework indicated it di not. I disabled CUPS via terminal as a result of "do your homework" homework. When checked it continues
    to say it is disabled, while I continue to print.

    Then I'm less than impressed with your effort.

    It is NOT disabled if you can continue to print.

    How exactly does it "say it is disabled"?


    I never saied I new better than all of you, because I don't. That's why I'm here. But most of you find some petty jihad to keep your fire burning usually on a secondary topic or an incidental phrase having to do with the question. Again.


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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to Your Name on Tue Oct 12 19:13:35 2021
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 10:43:34 PM PDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 05:35:41 +0000, Gerry said:

    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:51:56 PM PDT, "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    In article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    which model ricoh, what error did it give and did you use the correct
    driver, which should install automatically?

    Ricoh Aficio SP C242SF.
    "Scanner reported and error. An error occured while communicating with the >> scanner."
    Nothing related to Ricoh ever installed automatically when I bought it some >> 10+ years ago, but I've updated drivers as systems changed. Currently driver >> 2.03 PS driver and ICA 1.02 for the scanner.
    Printer works find and always has. Scanner won't respond.

    I know you've found a solution now, but this sounds the same to the
    problem many of us HP users had a little while back - same problem and
    error message.

    In that case the problem wasn't with the devices nor the driver
    software itself. It was reportedly caused by Apple (possibly at HP's
    request) expiring the valdiation certificates for the old versions of
    the drivers. Suddenly everything just stopped working. Installing
    updated drivers helped some people either fully or partially (printing,
    but still no scanning). For those of us with mainly older "outdated"
    devices that HP couldn't be bothered updating drivers for, we had to
    wait for Apple / HP to fix the problem at their end and re-establish
    the validation. From memory it took a few days, but just as suddenly
    started working again.

    I'm not sure if you've heard my solution regarding the scanner problem, though this thread at least *intended* to be about something else.

    After talking to Ricoh a couple of times--and getting uncommonly attendant service where they have always sucked--I eventually abandoned doing scanning through the TCP/IP driver. I hooked up a previously unused USB line to the printer and all my ills were cured. My wife continues to print, as do I
    through the TCP/IP pipe and scan comm goes through the USB.

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  • From Alan Baker@21:1/5 to Gerry on Tue Oct 12 12:33:02 2021
    On 2021-10-12 12:13 p.m., Gerry wrote:
    On Oct 6, 2021 at 10:43:34 PM PDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

    On 2021-10-06 05:35:41 +0000, Gerry said:

    On Oct 5, 2021 at 5:51:56 PM PDT, "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote: >>>
    In article <sjirqn$upk$1@dont-email.me>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

    I'm trying to make a Ricoh printer's scanner respond under OS11.6. It keeps
    returning an error. While rooting through related issues I CUPS
    complaints--likely wholly unrelated. But it makes me wonder, is CUPS of any
    use with moder versions of the mac OS?

    which model ricoh, what error did it give and did you use the correct
    driver, which should install automatically?

    Ricoh Aficio SP C242SF.
    "Scanner reported and error. An error occured while communicating with the >>> scanner."
    Nothing related to Ricoh ever installed automatically when I bought it some >>> 10+ years ago, but I've updated drivers as systems changed. Currently driver
    2.03 PS driver and ICA 1.02 for the scanner.
    Printer works find and always has. Scanner won't respond.

    I know you've found a solution now, but this sounds the same to the
    problem many of us HP users had a little while back - same problem and
    error message.

    In that case the problem wasn't with the devices nor the driver
    software itself. It was reportedly caused by Apple (possibly at HP's
    request) expiring the valdiation certificates for the old versions of
    the drivers. Suddenly everything just stopped working. Installing
    updated drivers helped some people either fully or partially (printing,
    but still no scanning). For those of us with mainly older "outdated"
    devices that HP couldn't be bothered updating drivers for, we had to
    wait for Apple / HP to fix the problem at their end and re-establish
    the validation. From memory it took a few days, but just as suddenly
    started working again.

    I'm not sure if you've heard my solution regarding the scanner problem, though
    this thread at least *intended* to be about something else.

    After talking to Ricoh a couple of times--and getting uncommonly attendant service where they have always sucked--I eventually abandoned doing scanning through the TCP/IP driver. I hooked up a previously unused USB line to the printer and all my ills were cured. My wife continues to print, as do I through the TCP/IP pipe and scan comm goes through the USB.


    And CUPS continues to be an essential part of your printing.

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