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

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