On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 05:38 -0700, darren wrote: > I am trying to get an Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer installed on > Solaris 10. The printer is a USB printer connected to a wireless Print > Server on a wireless LAN. Two other PCs running VISTA and Linux Arch > can print to the printer so no probs there. > > I'm not sure how to go about installing the printer on Solaris. On > Linux I used CUPS+foomatic+gutenprint+a2ps which provided end-2-end > support using PPD files. > > Gutenprint is a linux package, not available for solaris so far as I > can determine. > > I guess I need a CUPS PPD file ?? > > Dont know where to start. Can find much on google other than a hit to > the open printing site which gives links to linux packages, not > solaris. What do i do? > > I was also considering moving to OpenSolaris ... would this fix the > problem or is there a common issue? > > Any ideas?
No idea, haven't done much printing configuration myself - have you read the any of the documentation at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/ http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/Documentation/Guide/ http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/Documentation/desktop/ http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/Documentation/cupsprint/ cheers, tim _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
