re re printer installing problems
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
...well i had my time with printing on linux-distro's...
maybe this can work (if you did all that allready: i apologize)
just install cups with package manager: all packages (see: the list above my
text) I guess.
than go to .system . .printing manager. follow instructions and do not forget
settings. as far as i remember you must in the 'printingmanagerbox change to
'cups' as printing program (right side down). in my case it is as simple as
that: for my old hp 500c this works fine.
ps: installing cupsys-bsd i shut down the lpr && i like cups much more.
good luck,
steef
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