Re: Printing on OpenBSD

From: Collin McClendon (collinmcclendon_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/28/05 

Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:58:08 -0400

Duane A. Damiano wrote:
> What's the trick for getting OpenBSD to print? After a long struggle, I
> did manage to get 3.4 to print. The same steps did not work on 3.6 and
> I'm having no luck so far with 3.7.
>
> I'm using the OpenBSD 3.7 binary packages for ghostscript-8.14p3.tgz and
> cups-1.1.23p2.tgz. The same hardware prints fine under Linux using a
> similar CUPS configuration.
>
> The test page will not print. The "Jobs" page of the CUPS web interface
> says that the print job was cancelled. The same thing happens when I
> try to print a text file using "lpr" from a terminal window.
>
> In order to get version 3.4 to print, I had to download and compile ESP
> Ghostscript. (That didn't help with 3.6) Do I need to do that now? If
> that's needed to use CUPS, why isn't there an ESP Ghostscript package?
>
> Duane
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Duane A. Damiano duane@damiano.name
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>
I had to do the same, it was quite a long an frustrating process.
I'll keep you posted on what I have to do. I think I my have to just use
esps ghostscript :(.
-C