Re: setting up DeskJet 960c as local printer on Woody box
I have reviewed the cupsomatic perl script situation and this basically
duplicates the work being done by the custom PPD and the foomatic-bin and
foomatic-db (at least that's how I understand it). I have also installed
cupsys-bsd, gv, and qtcups per various sets of instructions. So now I have
the following installed:
cupsis-pstoraster
cupsys
cupsys-bsd
cupsys-bsd
cupsys-client
foomatic-bin
foomatic-db
gv
hpijs
mpage
qtcups
Still no joy.
I think the problem is occuring somewhere between the printer as hardware
which seems to be installed ok, and the various installed packages which
also seem to be set up ok. It's just that the two are not talking to each
other.
Except for the fact that this may indicate something else wrong with my
setup, I'm about to say "Why do I need this?" since the printer off my W2K
box works fine and I could probably set up this printer on an open USB port
and have it up and running in two minutes (the little test it did for itself
looked like a very nice job of printing, better than the multi-function
OfficeJetT65 I use on the W2K box.)
1. What would be the best way to get everything print related out of the
machine to start over? Uninstall all of the above? Anything else?
2. Can I still be missing something in my kernel?
3. How do you command-line send a job to the printer? lpr and pdq both give
me: "command not found". I looked in modutls aliases and inserted the lines:
alias /dev/printers lp
alias /dev/lp0 lp
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
and rebooted, but that did nothing, so I removed them. My thinking is it is
something like this that is the problem: no communication between the
parallel port and the printing drivers.
4. I tried printing from the Web, no go, but that's no real test as Mozilla
doesn't do anything for me except see pages (I just installed the browser).
5. The error message off Nedit has changed, and is now: lpr: unable to print
file: server-error-service-unavailable
Best Wishes!
Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org