I'm learning to really hate CUPS. Is there an alternative for inkjet
printers? Is CUPS dead now that Corel has largely folded?
Since upgrading to 8.1, my machine has been unable to print through a
CUPS server running on Mandrake 8.0. Thinking it might be version
mis-match, I upgraded that machine to 8.1 (losing its CDROM in the
process, but that's another story)
Now, it seems no combination of printer URI's will recognize that
remote printer.
The CUPS manuals never actually define their own printer URIs; they
give many, many examples of URIs used by other manufacturers, but
never once give their own. The manuals never illustrate installing a
remote printer off another CUPS equipped machine, and the only hint
just repeats what the web interface says:
file:/path/to/filename.prn
http://hostname:631/ipp/port1
ipp://hostname/ipp/port1
lpd://hostname/queue
socket://hostname
socket://hostname:9100
Which of these tokens is literal? So far, I've tried
http://luna:631/Epson
http://luna:631/ipp/Epson
http://luna:631/ipp/port1
http://luna:631/ipp/lp0
http://192.168.70.3:631/Epson
http://192.168.70.3:631/ipp/Epson
http://192.168.70.3:631/ipp/port1
http://192.168.70.3:631/ipp/lp0
ipp://luna/Epson
ipp://luna/ipp/Epson
ipp://luna/ipp/port1
ipp://luna/ipp/lp0
ipp://192.168.70.3/Epson
ipp://192.168.70.3/ipp/Epson
ipp://192.168.70.3/ipp/port1
ipp://192.168.70.3/ipp/lp0
lpd://luna/Epson
lpd://192.168.70.3/Epson
this seems to exhaust all possible misunderstandings of that cryptic
prompt (the manual never uses the "//<host>/ipp" path) but I still get
the same nonsensical error message:
Printer will not accept print file (client-error-not-found)!
which I can only guess is bad english for "error, client not found"
meaning that URI does not point to any printers. On Luna, Epson
is defined as parallel:/dev/lp0
What is the correct way to specify a remote CUPS printer in
cups-1.1.10-9mdk?
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
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