CUPS: Can't get Zebra LP 2844 label printer to work!

[oskare100]

Hello,
I've tried now for several hours to get my Zebra LP 2844 label printer to work with Linux and CUPS. I have tried with all of the drivers in CUPS (there are three; one EPL1, one EPL2 and one ZPL). I've checked so the printer works OK when it is connected to a windows machine and everything is OK, there is labels in it. It is connected to the Linux computer with an USB cable.

First I added the printer to cups, following the normal procedure. Then, when I click "print test page" I get the error "No pages found!". When I try to restart the test page print job the error changes to "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel failed". Regardless of what driver I test with, and regardless of if I restart the printer.

To me it seams like it can't find any papers by first look (but I'm not good at these parts of linux). I really need help to fix this as the label printer is very important for me to be able to use so I really appreciate all help.. If you reply with a working solution and send me your Paypal email I might also send you some compensation : ) but I'm just an individual who is really frustrated about this issuse so I don't tell me to hire someone.

With CUPS in normal mode I get the following in the error log:

I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:21 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=7942)
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:23 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=7943)
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=7944)
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Adding start banner page "none" to job 21.
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Adding end banner page "none" to job 21.
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Job 21 queued on "Zebra_LP2844_USB_1" by "root".
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 7945) for job 21.
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 7946) for job 21.
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel (PID 7948) for job 21.
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 7949) for job 21.
E [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] PID 7946 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster) stopped with status 127!
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:28 +0200] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
E [05/Oct/2007:22:06:29 +0200] [Job 21] No pages found!
E [05/Oct/2007:22:06:29 +0200] PID 7948 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel) stopped with status 1!
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:29 +0200] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
I [05/Oct/2007:22:06:30 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=7950)

With CUPS in debug mode I get a lot of information from the error log:
(I couldn't add the whole error log here because the message would have been to big, but I hosted it on http://www.mediafire.com/?bbjljh9rhxh and http://www.desiload.com/download.php?file=b8a1e0dc4f55c9ec579b0df4c95112ee so please view it there.)

Thanks in advance,
Oskar R

 

[pentode]

No answers, just a couple of questions:

Can you print to other printers using CUPS on this machine?

Are you sure the driver is supposed to work with this printer?

Maybe similar issue to this:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Printing/2005/May/msg00039.html

or this:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2007-July/118374.html

Doesn't sound terribly promising, to be honest.