Paul Cunningham wrote: > > > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Paul Cunningham wrote: >>> Ghee Teo wrote: >>>> Have you tried simply plugin the printer into the USB port and let >>>> the print system to configure the print queue for you? >>>> There should be a dialog pop up when you plug in the printer. >>> >>> I don't think there is an office PPD file for that printer, see .. >>> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_C6180 >>> >>> but something I read seems to indicate that there may now be one in >>> HPLIP (http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?p=52791) - but in may >>> not be in the version of hplip on opensolaris (I don't have an >>> installed system so I can't check). >> >> I'll give CUPS a spin later today unless anyone has ideas on how to >> make foomatic work :) > > You could try switching on 'debug' in the foomatic-rip filter script to > see if that shows why its going wrong. > > Just change ... > my $debug = > to 1, then rerun your print job, the log should be in /tmp/foomatic-rip > > I'm not sure where 'foomatic-rip' lives on opensolaris, but on s10 its > /usr/lib/lp/bin/foomatic-rip. > > You might get the same problem with CUPS if its to do with the ppd file > you are using.
All attempts at using OSPM with foomatic failed. Using the instructions found here, I was able to print the very first time (using CUPS): http://markmail.org/message/ped7p5mpnn7jwcal Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
