On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry Jan I think that I'm causing some unnecesary confusion:
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Nov 04 06:29:08, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On Nov 03 21:59:49, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote:
>>> >> I'm unsuccesfully trying to make this HP printer... to print... (this
>>> >> is a new printer
>>> >> I have already printed with windows XP, and on this OpenBSD box using
>>> >> foo2zjs
>>> >> instead of hpijs, but it only works via usb, not network...):
>>> >
>>> > So why don't you continue printing with foo2zjs?
>>> >
>>>
>>> foo2zjs works awesome with usb, but doesn't work with network (or I
>>> don't know how
>>> to configure it exactly,
>>
>> You are not even trying to print over the network;
>> you are using ":lp=/dev/ugen0.01:" as your device.
>>
>>> I'm going to put a sniffer on a windows
>>> machine when it's printing today and try to see what magic it does),
>>
>> If you find yourself in the need to "sniff" some traffic
>> to decipher some "magic" your printer is doing, then
>> you are doing something wrong.
>>
>>> anyway I bought this printer
>>> _just_ for the
>>> network printing (and the nasty HPlip page lied to me...).
>>
>> What HPlip page? The specification
>> www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/ce749a.pdf
>> says "host-based printing, HP PCL 5e" - read:
>> you will need to attach this to a computer that
>> will talk to me in PCL (not postscript, no).
>
> This page I mean (on the HPlip site):
>
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_professional_p1606dn.html
>
>>> :lp=/dev/ugen0.01:\
>>> :sd=/var/spool/output:\
>>> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>>> :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
>>> :af=/etc/foomatic/hp-laserjet_professional_p1606dn-foo2zjs.ppd:\
>>> :rp=raw:\
>>> :sh:
>>> With that I got pretty printing... (only with usb).
>>
>> If you can get this to print locally,
>> why don't you just let your lpd listen to clients
>> on your network?
>>
>
> This printer got it's own LPD (as far as I know):
>
> $ nmap guten
>
> Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-11-04 07:34 CST
> Nmap scan report for guten (172.16.0.15)
> Host is up (0.0016s latency).
> Not shown: 994 closed ports
> PORT STATE SERVICE
> 7/tcp open echo
> 80/tcp open http
> 515/tcp open printer
> 8080/tcp open http-proxy
> 8290/tcp open unknown
> 9100/tcp filtered jetdirect
>
> Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.50 seconds
> $
>
>>> lp|Hp LaserJet p1606dn:\
>>> :lp=:\
>>> :sd=/var/spool/output:\
>>> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>>> :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
>>> :af=/etc/foomatic/hp-laserjet_professional_p1606dn-foo2zjs.ppd:\
>>> :rm=172.16.0.15:\
>>> :rp=raw:\
>>> :sh:
>>>
>>> With that I only got the plain text of a *.ps file out of the printer:
>>>
>>> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
>>> % Produced by xpdf/pdftops 3.02
>>>
>>> %% Creator: GPL Ghostscript...
>>>
>>> (with the same identation).
>>>
>>> The printing command is:
>>>
>>> $ lpr ~/xypic.ps;
>>>
>>> (Or any other *.ps file).
>>
>> This printer cannot speak postscript.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah, I know it cannot print postcript, the think is that there is _another_
> unidentified problem with the foomatic-rip program, (or the a2ps filter) when
> you send via lpr a non-ps file, it fails to identify the format of the
> source file,
> fails to do conversion on it, and dies (by means of another error completely
> diferent).
>
> With foo2zjs (via usb) I'm able to $ lpr file.ps;
>
> If I send another file:
>
> $ echo helloworld | lpr ;
>
> Then foomatic-rip dies (for another reasons, that I'm not trying to identify
> right now, I'm trying to first get network printing on this thing).
>
> Another note:
>
> The printer is *not* supposed to be directly attached (via usb) to my OpenBSD
> box, that's why my LPD is not listening on any TCP socket.
>
> Thank you.
>
Just for the records:
I must take a more careful log of wich tests do I do... this printer
seems to work
perfectly (even across network) with:
lp|Hp LaserJet p1606dn:\
:[email protected]:\
:sd=/var/spool/output:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
:af=/etc/foomatic/hp-laserjet_professional_p1606dn-foo2zjs.ppd:\
:sh:
Using foo2zjs (as the ppd indicates).
I just didn't know why should I use the 9100 port... (after seeing
what a win XP system
does to print I saw that tcp 9100 traffic going so I just adapted my
printcap accordingly).
Resume: the hpijs sucks (it made me waste two days of my life)...
Thanks to everyone, sorry for the noise.
