Thank you all for your help,
like Jacob supposed, I misunderstood the entry of openprinting.org
and the usage of the foomatic-engine-db. With Jacob's explanation
everything worked instantaneously. Thank you very much!
Moritz
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:08:09PM +0000, Moritz Herrmann wrote:
Hi guys,
after trying a whole day myself to get the old Canon PIXMA iP2000 to
print from OBSD 4.5
i considered asking the mailing list for help.
The printer itself is fine and is recognized as:
# dmesg | grep ulpt
ulpt0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Canon iP2000" rev
1.10/1.05 addr 2
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
Then I consulted http://openprinting.org/ where I found, that
gutenprint
drivers for my printer should work fine.
So after installing CUPS and succesfully printing on a HP Laserjet I
installed gutenprint and tried to configure the Canon printer with the
Cups web interface. As Cups didn't have the Canon model as a choice I
manually downloaded the gutenprint database extracted the suitable .ppd
file and copied it to /usr/local/share/cups/model/. Still the printer is
not working.
I am unsure if I made a stupid mistake so far, because after getting
gutenprint with pkg_add I presumably should not have downloaded the ppd
file manually.
Here is the cups error log:
I [11/Jun/2009:22:03:55 +0000] Job 18 queued on "pixmaiP2000" by "root".
I [11/Jun/2009:22:03:55 +0000] Started filter
/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 25160) for job 18.
I [11/Jun/2009:22:03:55 +0000] Started filter
/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 20648) for job 18.
I [11/Jun/2009:22:03:55 +0000] Started filter
/opt/gutenprint/cups/lib/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.0 (PID 19387) for job
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
seems like an odd path. you probably don't want to use the downloaded
PPDs.
also, I don't think you understood what it says @ openprinting.org.
the entry for this printer is a little confusing. you are supposed
to treat the printer like it's a bj800 or bj7000. if you install the
foomatic-db-engine package, you can get a PPD like so:
$ foomatic-ppdfile -p Canon-BJC-7000 -d bjc800
that one will use plain ol' ghostscipt, no gutenprint. if you wish
to try the gutenprint driver, install foomatic-db-gutenprint and
do
$ foomatic-ppdfile -p Canon-BJC-7000 -d gutenprint
of course the main confusion is that the openprinting.org entry
uses 'bj' instead of 'bjc'. note that the entry is user-contributed
and can be edited by anyone.
