Re: Cups

From: Malcolm Kay (malcolm.kay_at_internode.on.net)
Date: 12/22/03

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    To: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:13:36 +1030

    On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:12, Luke Kearney wrote:
    > Hello,
    > I am having a troublesome time with CUPS and printing to an Epson
    > PM-740DU inkjet printer. I have set up cups and it works to a degree. I
    > can print test pages like there is no tomorrow but I cannot print from
    > desktop applications let alone from any of the networked machines via
    > samba. The client machines can browse and add the printer but they
    > cannot print to it. I am using a fairly generic PPD for the printer as I
    > could not find one for BSD in the ports and linuxprinting.org didn't
    > offer much joy. I understand that the printer is roughly equivalent to
    > the Stylus Photo 780 ( max dpi 2880x720 , 6 colours ).
    >
    > When trying to print a txt file from the cmd line I get
    >
    > lpr: lp: unknown printer
    >

    lpr is looking for the default printer named 'lp'. It seems you don't have one ;)

    > /etc/printcap shows
    >
    > tamachi: $ cat /etc/printcap
    > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
    > # /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
    > # will be lost.
    > # written for pips780
    > pm780c|EPSON PM780C:\

    As it stands you will need to nominate the specific printer each time it's used.
    # lpr -P pm780c
    or
    # lp -d pm780c

    To make it use this printer by default you must give it 'lp' as one of its names as in:
        lp|pm780c|EPSON PM780C:\
    >
    > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pm780c:\
    > :mx#0:\
    > :sh:\
    > :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
    > :if=/usr/local/libexec/pips780/filter780.rev:\
    > :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
    >
    > # pips780 end
    >
    > actually having installed the pips780 file from ports I ran the setup
    > script to get this into printcap. If I modify the printer via the CUPS
    > interface it scraps all of the above and replaces it with one line which
    > is the name I gave the printer in the setup.
    >

    Malcolm Kay
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