Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Gutenprint

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On 10/23/20 7:00 PM, Ken Moffat via Gimp-print-devel wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 05:47:39PM -0400, James Frederick wrote:
>> Hello~
>> I was recently forced to upgrade to Mac OS Catalina, due to the death of my
>> old SSD. One week after doing so, my workhorse HP Laserjet 4200 stopped
>> working. I get a "filter failure" message. This sounds like a drive issue,
>> but HP support is pretty much MIA. I am wondering if Gutenprint might
>> provide an alternative/workaround, so that I can get my printer back.
>>
>> I have been connecting the HP via serial-to-usb. One reference I saw stated
>> that Catalina does not recognize serial connections.
>>
>> I saw on your site that there were some issues with Catalina and
>> Gutenprint, and I am wondering if those have been resolved. The reference I
>> saw was about a year old.
>>
>> If not, are there any other options you can think of? Thank you in advance!
> 
> Looking at a few linux bug reports, generally old, the 'filter
> failed' message on some of them was associated with a full disk (or
> full partition, e.g. in /var/spool - no idea where that translates
> to in OSX).

It's a very generic error message; one would need to look at the logs to try to diagnose it.  An out
of disk condition could cause it, but so could a lot of other things and in this case I'm inclined
to suspect it's something else.  Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with how to access logs on OS X.