Background: Today was the day that I was going to figure out all the printing related problems relating to a planned print server switch. the old server, rh 6.0 with a lot of upgrades does a lot and I am migrating the serviced off if it slowly to a 7.3 box.
I figured that it was time to wade into cups and see if I could get it to work with both the Xerox Phaser 860 color printer and the old workhorse HP lj 5si. after fighting for 3 hours trying to use the ipp protocol to the xerox I punted and set it up using lp and at least it prints using the Phaser 850 ppd included with rhl 7.3. Now that I have it working as an lpd based printer maybe I will try the ppd for the 860 that xerox provided. I now have cups running and can print to the xerox both locally and remotely from a rhl 7.2 box running lpd. I had to create the /etc/xinet.d/cups-lpd file that runs the cupd lpd service. the two queues I have set up are xerox860 and hp. Issues: 1) HP no worky I cannot get anything but either blank pages (man man |lpr -dhp) or a single very thin and faint line (print test page from cups web interface) on the hp. It is currently set up as an lpd printer at the printer's ip address. I also tried it as a socket/jetdirect printer with exactly the same results. The printer is about 75 feet from the server in another room so testing via parallel is out of the question. Does anyone have any ideas? I have read all sorts of stuff at linuxprinting .org and cups documentation but can find no reference to blank pages on a 5si or any related problem. 2) Can't get Xerox to use ipp 3) I can't figure out how to use athe xerox suppied ppd file. cupsomatic pukes with an error "unable to evaluate datablob" due to the fact that the ppd file has none of the COMDATA lines in it like the ones from the cups rpms. Basically the array used to store all the ppd options is empty and that is what caues it to puke. Curiosities: I am used to printing man pages via command line with man whatever |lpr under the old spooler to the hp printer. on the xerox it cuts off the first couple of characters. it works ok using man -t whatever |lpr. I dont understand the difference and can't test the hp right now to isolate the problem. I like the fact that cups allows me to control the printer better than the old lpd spooler but man what a pain in the butt to set up. I have not even tried to print from a windows box yet but I suspect samba will thorw me a curve or two when I get there. Any tips/docs appreciated. I managed to get lost in all the documentation and am having trouble deciding what information applies to my envisioned. Thanks in advance, Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
