Re: Printing / Firefox

From: Brian L (brian-l_at_example.com)
Date: 06/27/05

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    On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:02:24 -0400, Duane A. Damiano wrote:

    > Gregory,
    >
    > If you ever figure out how to print with OpenBSD, please tell me.
    >

    Using the recipe here:

    http://umaxx.um.funpic.de/howtos/obsolete/howto_cups-on-openbsd.pdf

    I've gotten printing working in 3.7 (2005/06/20 snapshot) with cups using
    the following (slightly updated) steps:

    1) install cups from ports or packages.

    2) download and extract espgs from http://sourceforge.net/projects/espgs/

    3) download and extract jpeg-6b from http://freshmeat.net/projects/libjpeg/

    4) rename the jpeg-6b directory to jpeg and move it into the espgs source
    directory.

    5) configure espgs. I used "./configure --without-omni
    --with-drivers=HP,PS". Use "./configure --help" to discover your configure
    options as you'll need to select the proper drivers. I'm not sure of the
    value of "--without-omni" other than it works for me, so I'm not digging
    any further. If anyone cares to shed some light on this...

    6) compile and install espgs with "# gmake install". I couldn't install
    without first creating two directories "bin" and "obj" in the source
    directory.

    7) go to http://linuxprinting.org and copy the appropriate ppd file for
    your printer(s) to /etc/cups/ppd/

    8) start cups with "# sh /usr/local/share/cups/cups.sh start"

    9) point your browser to "http://127.0.0.1:631". Go to Printers/Add
    Printer to, well, add your printer. You'll need your root password to do
    this. Don't use spaces in the Name/Location/Description fields. I selected
    "USB Printer #1" for the device, "HP" for the model, and "HP LaserJet
    Series CUPS v1.1 (en)" for the Model/Driver options.

    10) The original instructions say "for printing use /usr/local/bin/lpr",
    but in all the applications I've used in KDE (including Firefox!) the
    print dialogs default to working options.

    Please note that printing works 100% except in Firefox, where the
    occasional page will crash the app. I haven't discovered any pattern yet
    to the problem pages; some short text only, some images, some mixed...

    Also note I got this working with the dreaded HP LaserJet 1012, which I
    would NOT RECOMMEND to anyone! It uses some weird sub-set of HP's
    proprietary printer language that has caused much suffering to many of
    it's users. My next printer will be a PostScript printer.

     

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