On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:04:29PM +0000, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie to OpenBSD coming from Debian and Ubuntu systems. I am
> well out of my depth and have no experience whatsoever with ports and I'm a
> bit intimidiated by them. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd
> be grateful. I only run a home desktop system and getting the printer to work
> seems to be last challenge before I can switch wholly to OpenBSD. Been
> reading Matt Lucas's book and browsing the faq to help. This is what I've
> tried in the direction of compiling.
>
> I'm trying to get my printer to work with cups. It is an Epson Stylus SX205
> (which is a slightly modified SX200) and it works best under the Epson
> ESC/P-R driver. I have downloaded
> epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1-1lsb3.2.src.rpm as recommended by the Epson
> site
> http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
>
> Many Thanks in advance
> Maurice
The Epson Stylus SX205 is supported by the gutenprint driver.
Assuming you are running 5.4 or current.
Make sure you have the needed packages installed (it is all explain under
/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/* ) :
# pkg_add gutenprint cups foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
Then restart cups:
# /etc/rc.d/cupsd restart
Then point your browser to :
http://localhost:631/
and add your printer using the web interface.
You should be able to use the 'CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9' driver.
--
Antoine
