On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:13:40PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >I have reviewed the chapter in the current BLFS book on printing, which > >indicates the only application providing the print daemon is CUPS, which I'm > >not interested in. I've also reviewed the printing hint, which is close to > > I find printing a challenge. I do have an HP Officejet Pro 6830. To get it > to work I found I needed to install this in the following order: > I'm certain I've spent more time over the years on printing than any other single issue. Sometimes it gets extremely tiring...
> cups > ghostscript ! > cups-filters > gutenprint > sane (for hplip) > net-snmp (for hplip, not in blfs) > hplip (not in blfs) > > I'm not sure if gutenprint is needed. > > hplip needs net-snmp: > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > --disable-embedded-perl \ > --disable-perl-cc-checks \ > --disable-static \ > --disable-manuals \ > --disable-agent \ > --disable-as-needed > make && make install > > hplip: > ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-pp-build && make && make install > > Then you need to get the appropriate ppd file for the printer. You'll have > to search for it. > > Use the browser to set it up http://localhost:631. To get the built in > scanner to work, I needed to make sure the URL was: > > hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_6830?ip=192.168.0.204 > > This ends up in the /etc/cups/printers.conf files as > "DeviceURI hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_6830?ip=192.168.0.204" > > And I needed to set .bash_profile to define: > > export SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE=hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_6830?ip=192.168.0.204 > > Then define the default printer: > lpoptions -d name-of-printer > > In addition, set the printer as default in the :631 interface. > > The above is pretty specific to my printer. I hope this helps. > Thanks for this detailed description - I'm going to print it out (as soon as I can!) and put it with my foot-thick stack of printer-related stuff. However, as noted above, CUPS is not really an option for me at this time, on this particular installation (all I'm going to need to do is print occasionally from mutt and vim.) Thanks again for your detailed description, which I'm sure will help others as well as myself. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
