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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