Re: Cups

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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:00:23 +0200

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
> /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:\
> :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.
>
> Appreciate any tips or links to howtos that are similar to my situation
> here.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
You did rename your /usr/bin/lpr with /usr/bin/lrp.old and set the path
to /usr/local/bin/ *before* /usr/sbin in your .profile (if you are using
bash shell), didn't you? (other shells use different files for
configuring the $PATH variable).Cups installs new lp* files in
/usr/local/ , you have to use those instead of the system-provided ones,
in order to have your printer work.. Otherwise all the other programs
will try to use the system-provided files, which are not cups, and which
are not even configured for any printer usage, by default.

CUPS is excellent. Also do modify your /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd
file to make sure your default printing resolution is set to maximum.

Check this article:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/cups.php

This one is even better:
http://webs.tconline.net/softedges/linux/cugbsd4.html

So:

  mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak
  mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak
  mv /usr/bin/lprm /usr/bin/lprm.bak
  mv /usr/bin/lpq /usr/bin/lpq.bak

Cheers..

Alin.

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