Re: [cups-devel] FYI: duplex not working ("Transport endpoint is not connected")

If you're having problems with Chrome printing, please file a bug at
crbug.com/new including the Chrome version and version of CUPS.  We'll try
to run it down.

Sean

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 10:16 AM Michael Sweet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Martin,
>
> My guess is that this is a bug in Qt or Chrome, although we've had no
> other reports of it.  The only time the CUPS APIs will try to connect
> directly to the device-uri for the PPD is for CUPS-shared printers that
> have no local PPD...
>
>
> > On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:51 AM, Martin Vogt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > this is a follow up to an older thread:
> >
> > https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups/2016-January/027429.html
> > https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups/2016-February/027491.html
> >
> >
> > With a new cups server and RHEL7 clients
> > the problem above was still present.
> >
> > - in google-chrome (cannot print in color, no ppds)
> > - QT/KDE 4.x (slow startup time, no ppds)
> >
> > The solution was to configure on the cups server NOT
> >
> > - ipp://mfp6030.printer.domain.com:631
> >
> > but
> >
> > - socket://mfp6030.printer.domain.com:9100
> >
> > with this the client does not:
> >
> > - tries to connect the printer directly
> > - does not run into a network problem (timeout)
> >
> > ==> problem solved.
> >
> > Additionally the qt/chrome client somehow gets a working ppd and
> > works as expected.
> >
> > In short: Don't use ipp:// to print from the server to an
> > internal printer, only use socket://.
> >
> > Is this a bug?
> > Maybe in Qt/chrome?
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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