Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > helices wrote: >> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:08:19:12:57-0500] >> scribed: >>> helices wrote: >>>> I have a printer and a workstation that are both >>>> firewire/ieee1394 capable. dmesg shows that ieee1394 is >>>> resident. >>>> >>>> Setting up cupsys, I have not been able to find the printer. >>>> Nor have google searches led me to a solution. >> <snip />
Do you you have an ieee1394 backend in /usr/lib/cups/backend or /usr/lib/cups/backend-available? I don't see one on my system. This may be an omission in the packaging. >>> I think I didn't even know that firewire printers existed... >>> >>> What is the printer's brand and model? >> >> Epson Stylus Photo R1800. I know that I can use USB; but, being >> a high falutin' photo printer, I hope that the throughput will be >> better with ieee1394 ... > > Well, sure ieee1394 is faster. That's why I only use ieee1394 > external HDDs. > > Truthfully, though, I wonder if "fast USB 2.0" is the printer's > bottleneck. With such a printer, it's quite common for the page rendering it to be CPU bound when printing at a high resolution. A single page could easily weigh in at over 500 MiB of print data. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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