Norm Jacobs wrote: > > Perhaps you can provide a little information about your printer and how > you have things configured. What kind of printer is it (HP Photospart > C7280, Epson CX8300, ...)? How are you configured to communicate with > it (USB, socket, ipp, lpd, ...)? How did you create your queue? Which > PPD file are you using? Do you have GhostScript, hpijs, gimpprint, > foomatic-rip, ... installed? Did you up the log level in cups and take > a look at it ?
It is an Epson DX4400 all-in-one, although I'm only interested in the printing right now. It's connected via USB. I used the CUPS interface and "Find new printers". It found the printer connected via USB, however couldn't recommend an installed PPD. I did some googling and found the open printing database (linuxprinting.org?) which recommended the printer be used with gutenprint-5.2. I've installed gutenprint-5.2 from source and symlinked the ppds into place. I then had the option to use the PPD for the exact model of the printer. According to google, the same problem (with other printers) is down to missing types in mime.convs and/or mime.types. I've checked and the required types are there. As for the logs, I did ramp up to debug level, however the only relevant message was something like: Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported format 'application/postscript'! Replace the format above with any of your choice, the only format it will accept is a straight image (jpeg, png etc). The preceeding messages were the normal queuing and connection messages I see with any print job on other servers. Incidentally, I have tried the printer on a gentoo linux box, with the same cups config, and the same PPDs, and it works perfectly. Also the mime types appear to be identical on both. > As for the access from a Windows box, since you are using the in-kernel > CIFS support, you can't use SMB based printing at this time. You need > to use IPP. On the Windows box, the printer uri for your queue will be > something like "http://hostname:631/printers/queue";. Yes I found this through trial and error, it even seems to use the windows authentication automatically :) Thanks Matt _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
