Hi All, ever since the update to Fedora 43 I am unable to get my Canon Pixma TS5360a to print wirelessly. It always worked fine in previous versions of Fedora but at the moment I am unable add the printer via the Fedora –> Settings –> Printers interface or via Cups at http://127.0.0.1:631/.
When trying to add the printer via the Cups web interface, Cups Administration finds the network printer correctly. However, when clicking on ‘add this printer’, and selecting the correct drivers I see the following message: “Unable to add printer: cups-driverd failed to get PPD file - see error_log for details.”.
When I try to add the printer via the Settings –> Printers GUI, it also finds the printer but again I see a message saying “Failed to add printer”.
I have tried to download and install the RPM-package for the drivers from the Canon website these fail to install also.
Currently every time I need to print I log back into Windows (dual-boot) and I can print without problems. Obviously this is not ideal and I try to use Fedora for everything.
If anyone has any ideas for some more troubleshooting I can do, I would be very grateful.
Please let me know if I need to provide extra info.
Your printer should support driverless (IPP) printing. Quoting man lpadmin:
NOTES
CUPS printer drivers and backends are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS.
Maybe the future has arrived! Did you check for .rpmnew files after updating? Reinstalling CUPS should get to a working configuration using IPP without any need for drivers/PPS files.
Hi George N. White III, thank you very much for the reply. Completely removing and reinstalling CUPS worked initially, then the old problem returned.
After reinstalling CUPS I was able to print once. Following this, each time I try to print from either LibreOffice or a PDF reader I see the message: “Could not start printer, please check your printer configuration”. The printer is turned on and is correctly showing in the Print dialogue screen.
Any further suggestions for things I can try?
Please note that I am running the printer driverless now, as per your suggestions above. This worked once, then it stopped working again, despite multiple restarts of the operating system and the printer.