On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 05:23:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:04:29PM +0000, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm a bit of a newbie to OpenBSD coming from Debian and Ubuntu systems. I
> > am well out of my depth and have no experience whatsoever with ports and
> > I'm a bit intimidiated by them. If anyone can point me in the right
> > direction I'd be grateful. I only run a home desktop system and getting the
> > printer to work seems to be last challenge before I can switch wholly to
> > OpenBSD. Been reading Matt Lucas's book and browsing the faq to help. This
> > is what I've tried in the direction of compiling.
> >
> > I'm trying to get my printer to work with cups. It is an Epson Stylus SX205
> > (which is a slightly modified SX200) and it works best under the Epson
> > ESC/P-R driver. I have downloaded
> > epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1-1lsb3.2.src.rpm as recommended by the
> > Epson site
> > http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
> >
> > Many Thanks in advance
> > Maurice
>
> The Epson Stylus SX205 is supported by the gutenprint driver.
> Assuming you are running 5.4 or current.
>
> Make sure you have the needed packages installed (it is all explain under
> /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/* ) :
> # pkg_add gutenprint cups foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
>
> Then restart cups:
> # /etc/rc.d/cupsd restart
>
> Then point your browser to :
> http://localhost:631/
> and add your printer using the web interface.
> You should be able to use the 'CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9' driver.
>
> --
> Antoine
Thanks again,
Should have said, I am indeed running 5.4 as for the driver, in Ubuntu the
gutenprint driver was giving me a vertical separation of the different colours
when printing text. I've not tried it for 2 or 3 months though.
I do have all the packages installed which you have suggested and restarted
cupsd. I also configured the printer through firefox. Tried simply pasting the
file Epson-Stylus_SX200-epson-escpr-en.ppd given with the Epson source code
straight into /etc/cups/ppd and pointing the browser tool at it. This did not
work either. A couple of years ago that would have been a fool-proof method in
Debian systems.
So I did
# cupstestppd *SX200*
but it failed:
Epson-Stylus_SX200-epson-escpr-en.ppd: FAIL
**FAIL** Missing cupsFilter file
"/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/epson-escpr-wrapper".
WARN Size "TA4" should be the Adobe standard name "A4.Fullbleed".
WARN Size "4X6FULL" should be the Adobe standard name "4x6".
WARN Size "T4X6FULL" should be the Adobe standard name
"4x6.Fullbleed".
However, I'll try the gutenprint driver again as you suggest.
I'll keep reading until I understand better.
Maurice
