I have printer, HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP, seem to have set it up 
with cups after running hp-setup (not sure about whether hp-setup was 
successful), but when I run a command to print, get "unknown printer", even 
though I copy/paste the overlong name with the mouse to avoid a typo.

lpoptions shows

copies=1 device-uri=socket://192.168.0.103 finishings=3 job-hold-until=no-hold 
job-priority=50 marker-change-time=0 number-up=1 
printer-commands=AutoConfigure,Clean,PrintSelfTestPage printer-info='HP 
LaserJet Professional M1212nf MFP' printer-is-accepting-jobs=true 
printer-is-shared=true printer-location=residence printer-make-and-model='HP 
LaserJet Professional m1212nf MFP, hpcups 3.14.10, requires proprietary plugin' 
printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1433062381 printer-state-reasons=none 
printer-type=8425484 
printer-uri-supported=ipp://localhost:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP

lpstat -p -d shows

printer HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP is idle.  enabled since Sun May 31 
08:53:01 2015
system default destination: HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP

lp newslet/huberwinerycoupon.ps   produces

lpr: lp: unknown printer

lp -d HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP newslet/huberwinerycoupon.ps   also 
produces

lpr: HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP: unknown printer

lpr and lp have same effect, using huberwinerycoupon.pdf also fails just the 
same.

huberwinerycoupon.ps was produced from huberwinerycoupon.pdf by xpdf.

Is there something I can do to make this work, short of buying a new printer 
and/or switching to Linux, or buying and installing MS-Windows?

Is cups (I have latest version, 1.7.3) broken or just user-hostile?

I've long known that cups is not user-friendly.

>From NetBSD (current, 7.99.15, i386), on the other computer, I fail the same 
>way.

I did build and install emulators/wine-devel on the other computer in 
NetBSD-current (7.99.15) from pkgsrc for both i386 and amd64; I could try that 
with the Windows software.

I also intend to build and install wine-devel for FreeBSD from ports, both i386 
and amd64, not only for printing.

Tom

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