Re: Problem with my printer and cups
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:17, Francois Fayard wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a problem installing the printer of a friend on his plain woody.
> He's got a HP Deskjet 640C : this means a non posscript printer
>
> I've configured CUPS through the web interface after installing the
> package that contains all the PPD files.
> first :
> - the printer prints when I do a : echo "hello wold" > /dev/lp0
> - the printer doesn't print a test page (but it used to. Don't know why)
> - When I do a lpr -Pdeskjet file.ps it just says lpr : deskjet unknown
> printer
>
> I don't understand what the hell it going on.
> Thanks for your advice
>
Francois,
I think I saw some noise on some list that you need cupsys-bsd to be able to
use lpr.
My HP 3325 just worked out of the box using the latest hpijs driver and with
the following installed packages:
cupsomatic-ppd
cupsys
cupsys-bsd
cupsys-client
cupsys-driver-gimpprint
cupsys-pstoraster
kdelibs3-cups
libcupsys2
Also, if you have only 1 printer you may not need the -P option.
HTH
Bob
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