Re: Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

[Alex Gould]

Thanks Michael and Gene.

This model (MS310d) doesn't have a built-in server, or ethernet or wifi
networking, so that's not an option.

I installed dfu and tried "dfu-util -l" with the printer powered on and
plugged in by USB, but it wasn't listed. So I guess it's not supported
by dfu.

I think I'll just arrange for a friend of mine with a windows laptop to
visit and take care of the upgrade.

Re: Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 25 December 2016 10:58:49 Alex Gould wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Has anyone been able to upgrade a Lexmark printer firmware via USB in
> Linux?
>
> I am using an MS310d. Lexmark has a windows firmware update utility
> but it doesn't detect the printer under WINE.
>
> Printing workers ok with CUPS but the firmware update promises to fix
> some errors that I've noticed.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

We have a utility for that, and which I have used a couple times but 
haven't managed to make it work with something expecting a winders box.
Do a search in your package manager of choice for "dfu", meaning Device 
Firmware Updater. I've failed a few times but I haven't killed any 
kittens with it either.  And I've succeeded a couple times.

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Re: Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

[Michael J. Ford]

On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 07:58 -0800, Alex Gould wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Has anyone been able to upgrade a Lexmark printer firmware via USB in
> Linux?
> 
> I am using an MS310d. Lexmark has a windows firmware update utility
> but
> it doesn't detect the printer under WINE.
> 
> Printing workers ok with CUPS but the firmware update promises to fix
> some errors that I've noticed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
Not over USB, but I've been able to do this over the network in the
past using a combination of curl/wget and ftp.

Some reverse engineering will be required... 
If you're looking for a more simple (manual) process the WebUI should have a 
firmware update utility...

Michael J. Ford 

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Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

[Alex Gould]

Hello everyone,

Has anyone been able to upgrade a Lexmark printer firmware via USB in
Linux?

I am using an MS310d. Lexmark has a windows firmware update utility but
it doesn't detect the printer under WINE.

Printing workers ok with CUPS but the firmware update promises to fix
some errors that I've noticed.

Thanks,
Alex

Re: possible screw-up installing HP printer

[Camaleón]

El 2012-04-20 a las 18:02 -0400, John Lindsay escribió:

(resending to the list)

 On 19/04/12 12:38 PM, Camaleón wrote:
 On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:32:45 -0400, John Lindsay wrote:


 I just installed an HP Laserjet P1102w. I have the Hp status icon
 showing in the upper RH side of my toolbar. The printer icon shows up
 whenever I print something BUT I have the following folders and files
 residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just delete
 them or did I really screw up the installation of this printer by
 causing it to be installed in my Downloads folder?

 Some of the folder names are
 'base','copier','data','fax','hplip-3.12.2', which shows a locked file
 and root only viewing, And even more files like align.py, cups_drv.inc,
 hp-hp.io, hpijs etc and a lot of libapdk_la files. Its only 65meg of
 files and folders but it is very messy and I would like to clean it up.
  
 How did you install the printer? Those files seem to come from the untar-
 ed hplip package :-?

 Just a quick note: unless you need the hplip package for some specific
 reason your printer can be configured from CUPS web interface (http://
 localhost:631) using foo2zjs drivers, meaning that you don't need hplip
 at all.

 Hi Camaleon

 Yes, I inserted the cd and followed the instructions from the HP site. 

The CD? What CD? You mean the printer came with a CD for Linux? Wow! 
This is new to me, but kudos to HP is that's so :-)

 I  will look into the 'http://localhost:631' and see what this 'foo2zjs' is  
 all about. Had a Brother printer that had issues with installing from  
 localhost so that’s why I followed the HP site. Thank you for all your 
 help.

Using CUPS web interface is usually the easiest way to install a 
printer when the driver is included in Ghostscript and the printer is 
detected correctly. HPLIP adds some nice features for multi-function 
devices (print-scan-copy-fax) though, but that's not your case, I guess.

 Just an aside   how do you get the 'o' with the mark above it?

 John

You mean the accented ó in my name? If you're using a US keymap that 
comes from the Compose key, usually set to Right Ctrl. You have to 
press R-Ctrl, then ' and the letter you want to accentuate, e.g., 
o → ó.

For people who usually have to write diacritics on a US keyboard it's 
usually better to add a secondary keyboard layout (us-intl).

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Re: possible screw-up installing HP printer

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:32:45 -0400, John Lindsay wrote:

 I just installed an HP Laserjet P1102w. I have the Hp status icon
 showing in the upper RH side of my toolbar. The printer icon shows up
 whenever I print something BUT I have the following folders and files
 residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just delete
 them or did I really screw up the installation of this printer by
 causing it to be installed in my Downloads folder?
 
 Some of the folder names are
 'base','copier','data','fax','hplip-3.12.2', which shows a locked file
 and root only viewing, And even more files like align.py, cups_drv.inc,
 hp-hp.io, hpijs etc and a lot of libapdk_la files. Its only 65meg of
 files and folders but it is very messy and I would like to clean it up.

How did you install the printer? Those files seem to come from the untar-
ed hplip package :-?

Just a quick note: unless you need the hplip package for some specific 
reason your printer can be configured from CUPS web interface (http://
localhost:631) using foo2zjs drivers, meaning that you don't need hplip 
at all.

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Re: possible screw-up installing HP printer

[Brad Rogers]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:32:45 -0400
John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net wrote:

Hello John,

 residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just
 delete them or did I really screw up the installation of this printer
 by causing it to be installed in my Downloads folder?

Without a crystal ball, it's difficult to tell which install method you
used;  Source tarball, Install script from HP  web site or
apt(itude)/synaptic.

At a guess, however, I'd say from the HP install script.  If yes, then
deleting the files and directories from your Download directory will
kill the install.

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possible screw-up installing HP printer

[John Lindsay]

I just installed an HP Laserjet P1102w. I have the Hp status icon 
showing in the upper RH side of my toolbar. The printer icon shows up 
whenever I print something BUT I have the following folders and files 
residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just delete 
them or did I really screw up the installation of this printer by 
causing it to be installed in my Downloads folder?


Some of the folder names are 
'base','copier','data','fax','hplip-3.12.2', which shows a locked file 
and root only viewing, And even more files like align.py, cups_drv.inc, 
hp-hp.io, hpijs etc and a lot of libapdk_la files. Its only 65meg of 
files and folders but it is very messy and I would like to clean it up.


John



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Re: Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:09:00 -1100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:

 On 2012-01-06 11:34:14 + Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  For this there are some hints over Internet:
  
 canon ip4700 printer/driver problem on 64bit karmic
 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1408300
  
 That method will sucedded depending on the packaging. If Canon
 packagers did count on the possibility of installing the required
 32-bits libraries so the driver could be installed over 64-bits
 systems, then the installer will ask for any dependency. I'm not sure
 this is an option for Canon drivers, though.
  
 I would try (and then buy should they work) the Turboprint drivers
 which seems to support your printer model (although just the printing
 function):
  
 http://www.zedonet.com/en_p_turboprint_driver.phtml?
printer=Canon_PIXMA_iP4700
  
 Nex time, buy an HP multifunction (or another branded linux compatible)
 device and ensure it is supported directly by manufacturer's driver :-P
 
 
 Ok first I forced the driver installation:
 
   dpkg -i --force-architecture package
 
 It installed but I was still not able to print after successfully
 setting it up from within the cups admin webpage. I installed the
 ia32-libs package and it worked. So for the benefit of the archives I
 thought I would share that.

Good to know. Canon is one of the printer manufacturers I have in my 
blacklist, they seem to make good products but most of them targeted to 
windows users.

Anyway thanks for sharing. Other users with the same printer model (or 
similar) will benefit from your findings :-)
 
 I'm wondering about printing from the command line though. lp(1) just
 shows a no destination to printer message. I think I might need the
 cups-bsd package but I can't see why I shouldn't be able to print from
 the command line with the normal cups packages.

I see you already solved this. lp needs the printer's name, something 
like:

lp -d printer_name /path/to/file

Otherwise selects the default printer, so if none is set it will fail.

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Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

Hi

I install the base Debian system, then X and my desktop which is 
Window Maker and the GNUStep environment. Now I need to get my Canon 
iP4700 printer set up.


I found the drivers as a .deb package on Canon's website. Can't 
install them because of the architecture incompatibility. However, I 
have read a number of articles and earlier forum posts where people 
have done this but they all seem to be related to Ubuntu. I have also 
read this article: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/531 
which explains about using 32 libraries to overcome this type of 
problem. Before I do, though, I just wonder if someone could advise if 
this is the right way forward; will it work basically? Has anyone else 
installed this printer on the 64bit Debian version?


Any advise appreciated.

Jamie


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Re: Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:16:51 -1100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:

 I install the base Debian system, then X and my desktop which is Window
 Maker and the GNUStep environment. Now I need to get my Canon iP4700
 printer set up.

 I found the drivers as a .deb package on Canon's website. Can't install
 them because of the architecture incompatibility. However, I have read a
 number of articles and earlier forum posts where people have done this
 but they all seem to be related to Ubuntu. 

For this there are some hints over Internet:

canon ip4700 printer/driver problem on 64bit karmic
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1408300

 I have also read this article: 
 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/531 
 which explains about using 32 libraries to overcome this type of problem.

That method will sucedded depending on the packaging. If Canon packagers did
count on the possibility of installing the required 32-bits libraries so the 
driver could be installed over 64-bits systems, then the installer will ask 
for any dependency. I'm not sure this is an option for Canon drivers, though.

 Before I do, though, I just wonder if someone could advise if this is
 the right way forward; will it work basically? Has anyone else installed
 this printer on the 64bit Debian version?

I would try (and then buy should they work) the Turboprint drivers which seems 
to support your printer model (although just the printing function):

http://www.zedonet.com/en_p_turboprint_driver.phtml?printer=Canon_PIXMA_iP4700

Nex time, buy an HP multifunction (or another branded linux compatible) device 
and ensure it is supported directly by manufacturer's driver :-P

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Re: Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On 2012-01-06 11:34:14 + Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 For this there are some hints over Internet:
 
 canon ip4700 printer/driver problem on 64bit karmic
 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1408300
 
 That method will sucedded depending on the packaging. If Canon packagers did
 count on the possibility of installing the required 32-bits libraries so the 
 driver could be installed over 64-bits systems, then the installer will ask 
 for any dependency. I'm not sure this is an option for Canon drivers, though.
 
 I would try (and then buy should they work) the Turboprint drivers which 
 seems to support your printer model (although just the printing function):
 
 http://www.zedonet.com/en_p_turboprint_driver.phtml?printer=Canon_PIXMA_iP4700
 
 Nex time, buy an HP multifunction (or another branded linux compatible) 
 device and ensure it is supported directly by manufacturer's driver :-P


Ok first I forced the driver installation:

dpkg -i --force-architecture package

It installed but I was still not able to print after successfully setting it up 
from within the cups admin webpage. I installed the ia32-libs package and it 
worked. So for the benefit of the archives I thought I would share that. 

I'm wondering about printing from the command line though. lp(1) just shows a 
no destination to printer message. I think I might need the cups-bsd package 
but I can't see why I shouldn't be able to print from the command line with the 
normal cups packages. 

jamie.


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Re: Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On 2012-01-06 22:09:00 + Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote:

 On 2012-01-06 11:34:14 + Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: 
 It installed but I was still not able to print after successfully setting it 
 up from within the cups admin webpage. I installed the ia32-libs package and 
 it worked. So for the benefit of the archives I thought I would share that.
 I'm wondering about printing from the command line though. lp(1) just shows a 
 no destination to printer message. I think I might need the cups-bsd 
 package but I can't see why I shouldn't be able to print from the command 
 line with the normal cups packages.
   jamie.

I figured it - I should have read more on the internet. I simply needed to set 
the default printer in the cups admin webpage.

jamie


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Installing a printer

[Byron Nilsen]

This must be a well-worn question.  I just installed woody.  The 
installation did not stop to inquire about my specific printer make/model 
which is an older (ca 1990) Canon BJ-200ex.  It did install a generic 
dot-matix driver which works for ASCII text, and as near as I can tell, 
several PostScript type drivers.  I am certain that the correct driver is 
on one of the seven CDs I have but don't know how to identify it.  
Apt-get requires a specific package name.  How do I identify which 
package to use for this particular printer?

Thanks,

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Re: Installing a printer

[Joris Huizer]

Byron Nilsen wrote:
This must be a well-worn question.  I just installed woody.  The 
installation did not stop to inquire about my specific printer make/model 
which is an older (ca 1990) Canon BJ-200ex.  It did install a generic 
dot-matix driver which works for ASCII text, and as near as I can tell, 
several PostScript type drivers.  I am certain that the correct driver is 
on one of the seven CDs I have but don't know how to identify it.  
Apt-get requires a specific package name.  How do I identify which 
package to use for this particular printer?

Thanks,
Byron Nilsen

Have a look at http://linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html for general cups 
installation howto and use this driver: 
http://linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=bj200fromprinter=Canon-BJ-200 
(assuming a BJ-200ex is compatible with Canon-BJ-200 -- as that one 
didn't show up in their data base)

As for packages, if you want to try cups, use the cupsys packages (I 
think?) and the cupsomatic-ppd package;

If the driver you need is not in gs, compile gs from the esp-gs sources 
-- that's easier than compiling an other gs source (in my experience anyway)

HTH,
Joris
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Installing default printer

[Lindsay Yardley]

G'day All,
I would like to install my printer using the default debian utilities
(lpr, lpd) without using tasksel as this installs 100Mbs+ of stuff.
Would some kind soul point me in the right direction please as I'm
googled out.
tia
Lindsay
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Re: Installing default printer

[Russell Shaw]

Lindsay Yardley wrote:
G'day All,
I would like to install my printer using the default debian utilities
(lpr, lpd) without using tasksel as this installs 100Mbs+ of stuff.
Would some kind soul point me in the right direction please as I'm
googled out.
Printing is a bigger area than it should be;)

http://www.linuxprinting.org/

CUPS works well, but i'm still experimenting with it a bit.

In dselect or aptitude, look at the descriptions for things
with cups or foomatic etc.
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Re: Installing default printer

[Shyamal Prasad]

Lindsay == Lindsay Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Lindsay G'day All, I would like to install my printer using the
Lindsay default debian utilities (lpr, lpd) without using tasksel
Lindsay as this installs 100Mbs+ of stuff.  Would some kind
Lindsay soul point me in the right direction please as I'm
Lindsay googled out.

Perhaps I don't quite understand all the implications of the question,
but the first thing I'd try is 'apt-get install lpr' followed by
'apt-get install apsfilter' which will walk you through an
installation of filters that support a fairly large set of printers.

If you installed Debian you should already have lpr. Try apsfilter if
you want to. 

Cheers
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Re: Installing default printer

[dhofstee]

Lindsay Yardley wrote:

I would like to install my printer using the default debian utilities
 

I wanted to too, but lpr didn't work for me. Then I tried CUPS but I got 
inconsistent results. Only after uninstalling lpr and installing a 
fake lpr package that knows CUPS did things start to work 
(flawlessly!). Bye,

David
ps Indeed, linuxprinting is IMHO the best place to look. If you have 
errors: cut-'n-paste them into google and see results.

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Re: installing a printer

[Travis Crump]

Stephen Gran wrote:

i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do
not have any set-up cds, floppies, etc.



Be aware that lpt1 = lp0 in linux.  Real geeks begin couning at zero
(^8.  You shouldn't need any drivers for this printer.  I think lpr,
lprng, and CUPS all have good default ppd's for it.



hp710c is a Windows printer.  It requires the drivers provided by the 
pnm2ppa package.


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installing a printer

[Sandip P Deshmukh]

hello all!

this is a question that comes from a windows user shifting to linux.

i have debian 3.0 installed, up and running.

i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do 
not have any set-up cds, floppies, etc.

windows way of 'installing' the printer would be to add printer in 
printer folder and so on.

how do i do it in linux? is there a simple way of doing it?

and how do i 'install' networed printers? printers connected to our lan 
that runs on winnt?

can i choose default printer, etc like i used to do in windows?

thanx in advance

- sandip


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Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

[csj]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:50:53 +
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[...]
 However, I have installed lyx - to try it out.  This is NOT a kde/qt 
 application - I think its a gtk.  It running in a kde window.  When I want to 
 print it pops up a dialog box with a blank text box for me to fill in the 
 name of the printer.

Vintage LyX doesn't uses gtk. It's non-free precisely because of the graphics
toolkit it uses.

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

[dman]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
 
| I have set up a printer using CUPS called laser.   Its actually a Brother 
| Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network.   It works 
| great from within KDE.
| 
| However, I have installed lyx - to try it out.  This is NOT a kde/qt 
| application - I think its a gtk.  It running in a kde window.  When I want to 
| print it pops up a dialog box with a blank text box for me to fill in the 
| name of the printer.
| 
| Anyone any idea what to fill in to get it to print on my CUPS laser.  I 
| tried the obvious (ie laser), it took a long time thinking before coming back 
| to me as though it had done it, but there is no trace of a job on CUPS and 
| nothing came out of the printer.

Perhaps lyx is looking directly at /etc/printcap to see what printers
exist and is silently ignoring non-existant printers?  To find out add
a printcap directive to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Printcap /etc/printcap
and restart cups.  See that a (dummy) printcap is generated.  Then try
printing with lyx again.

It is also possible that lyx is using the other command set.  There
are both SysV and BSD print commands provided by cupsys-client and
cupsys-bsd respectively.  If you only have one of them installed, try
installing the other.

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Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

[ben]

On Saturday 19 January 2002 02:49 pm, dman wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
 | I have set up a printer using CUPS called laser.   Its actually a
 | Brother Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network.  
 | It works great from within KDE.
 |
 | However, I have installed lyx - to try it out.  This is NOT a kde/qt
 | application - I think its a gtk.  It running in a kde window.  When I
 | want to print it pops up a dialog box with a blank text box for me to
 | fill in the name of the printer.
 |
 | Anyone any idea what to fill in to get it to print on my CUPS laser.  I
 | tried the obvious (ie laser), it took a long time thinking before coming
 | back to me as though it had done it, but there is no trace of a job on
 | CUPS and nothing came out of the printer.

 Perhaps lyx is looking directly at /etc/printcap to see what printers
 exist and is silently ignoring non-existant printers?  To find out add
 a printcap directive to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
 Printcap /etc/printcap
 and restart cups.  See that a (dummy) printcap is generated.  Then try
 printing with lyx again.

 It is also possible that lyx is using the other command set.  There
 are both SysV and BSD print commands provided by cupsys-client and
 cupsys-bsd respectively.  If you only have one of them installed, try
 installing the other.

 -D

to find out the name of the cups designated printer, run lpstat -d. whatever 
it returns is the name you should print to. that works for me using generic 
unix lpd, which i'm assuming is sysv.

Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

[Claus Ladekjær Wilson]

I run Mandrake normally - how do I install the filter for my hp 390 c ?
This was my first install of Debian and I am impressed of performance. I run 
potato 2.2r4
How do I change window managers? And kde isn't on the cdrom's I guess?
I would like to use a 2.4 kernel - how to install such a thing?
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Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

[dman]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:11:28PM +0100, Claus Ladekjær Wilson wrote:

| how do I install the filter for my hp 390 c ?

get the 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client', 'cupsys-bsd',
'cupsys-driver-gimpprint', 'cupsomatic-ppd', and 'cupsys-pstoraster'
pacakges.  (I think at least some of them aren't in potato)  The CUPS
printing system is very nice and easy to use.  Just point your web
browser to http://localhost:631/ and you can add a printer with
point-n-click.  Of the packages I listed, one is the daemon, two are
the client tools (lp and lpr and friends; one is SysV the other is
BSD), and three contain drivers.  With those three package you'll
have filters for many different printers.

| How do I change window managers?

What is your desktop?  If you have none, just edit ~/.xsession
appropriately.  If you're using GNOME use the Control Center

| And kde isn't on the cdrom's I guess?

Nope.  It is/was not free.

| I would like to use a 2.4 kernel - how to install such a thing?

Either get Adrian Bunk's packages
or
upgrade 'modutils' and whatever else is required and build your own.

google is bound to turn up some F{ine}M's to R.


(I recommend moving to woody or sid if you want a 2.4 kernel or if you
want KDE or GNOME or anything else that is recent (like CUPS).  potato
is called stable but it is old; the newer stuff is newer)

-D

-- 

Don't use C;  In my opinion,  C is a library programming language
 not an app programming language.  - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer)

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

[Alan Chandler]

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On Friday 18 January 2002 9:19 pm, dman wrote:
 get the 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client', 'cupsys-bsd',
 'cupsys-driver-gimpprint', 'cupsomatic-ppd', and 'cupsys-pstoraster'
 pacakges.  (I think at least some of them aren't in potato)  The CUPS
 printing system is very nice and easy to use.  Just point your web
 browser to http://localhost:631/ and you can add a printer with
 point-n-click.  Of the packages I listed, one is the daemon, two are
 the client tools (lp and lpr and friends; one is SysV the other is
 BSD), and three contain drivers.  With those three package you'll
 have filters for many different printers.

I have set up a printer using CUPS called laser.   Its actually a Brother 
Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network.   It works 
great from within KDE.

However, I have installed lyx - to try it out.  This is NOT a kde/qt 
application - I think its a gtk.  It running in a kde window.  When I want to 
print it pops up a dialog box with a blank text box for me to fill in the 
name of the printer.

Anyone any idea what to fill in to get it to print on my CUPS laser.  I 
tried the obvious (ie laser), it took a long time thinking before coming back 
to me as though it had done it, but there is no trace of a job on CUPS and 
nothing came out of the printer.

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  Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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installing a printer

[Dale Morris]

I just upgraded to the latest version of printtool and now my printer
doesn't work. I used to printtool to install my epson stylus color 600
in the past and it worked great, but now, it doesn't work.

I removed the printer from the printcap, hoping to reinstall it, but
there's some sort of bug in the filter that doesn't allow me to set up
the resolution. 

Is there another way to set up my printer? I'm currently using woody
with 2.2.17 kernel. 

any suggestions,

thanks
dale

Re: installing a printer

[Dale Morris]

I removed the printtool package and installed apsfilter, configuring it
for my printer answering the questions asked. When I try to print a text
file, here's the message I get:
apsfilter: unsupported filetype
english text from dlm
or missing filter !
or perhaps you have to type lpr -Pascii to print
an ascii
file containing control characters or
lpr -Praw to print
a file in your printers native
language, when printing data
files (pcl3, pcl5, ...)

Is there a package I'm missing for this? 
thanks

Re: installing a printer

[Dale Morris]

I have my printer working now. Here's what happened and what I did:
apt-get upgrade resulted in a newer version of printtool being installed
(this is curious because there's only one version in unstable)
I removed printtool and tried to configure apsfilter. Didn't work, got a
message from cron that I was missing a filter to print text files.
Installed ap2ps, then reconfigured /etc/printcap file using
apsfilterconfig. Changed resolution from 720 to 360 for my epson
stylus600 (default resolutions). Now apsfilter would print a test page.
Great! Fired up staroffice and tried to print a page, no luck.. printer
kept spitting out blank pages.
Installed xpp after reading printing how-to. It installed CUPS and
related print packages, but couldn't get it to work. Removed xpp.

Disgusted.. ate a peach.
Checked the debian-users list hoping there was an answer to this
question. No luck, but there were other postings. Read one about
MagicFilter..
Installed magicfilter and used magicfilterconfig --force option to
create new /etc/printcap file. This time staroffice would print and..

So far it's working..
-- 

The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck
the societies in which they occur.
--Albert North Whitehead

Re: installing a printer

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello Pollywog,

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Pollywog wrote:

 I did not configure a printer when I installed Debian.  Is there a
 tool to help me configure a printer now without reinstalling Debian?

Of course you can configure a printer without reinstalling. The Debian way
of doing things lets you do almost everything without even rebooting
(remember: Linux is NOT at all like Windoze;-)
(There are some exceptions, e.g. if you compiled a new kernel and want to
start with it).
Get the Printing-HOWTO at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html
There, all the steps are described. In short:
1. install printer spooling software (usually lpr or lprng)
2. install filter software (magicfilter or apsfilter, would be good to
install all the tools, which they recommend (gs, jpeg-progs and the like)
3. run magicfilterconfig to configure your /etc/printcap file

 I am getting an Epson Stylus Color 740 and I will use the parallel
 connector until the 2.4 kernels are released.

There was something about the Epson Stylus Color 740 on this list just a
while ago. If it doesn't work, look at these mails or in the archive.

 I will need to recompile my kernel with printer support

No you don't, because:
The lp-module and the parport-modules will get installed
during the installation of Debian (even if you didn't configure them
during installation!), so if you didn't accidentally remove
them, you should just make sure, that they are loaded, when printing.
(Try the program modconf to tell your system which modules to load on
startup and to configure them).
Although it would not be a bad idea to recompile your kernel. It usually
makes your system faster and the kernel smaller (as you can exclude
drivers, which you don't need).

Regards,
Daniel

Re: installing a printer

[Pollywog]

On 16-May-2000 17:28:03 Daniel Reuter wrote:
 Get the Printing-HOWTO at
 http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html
 There, all the steps are described. In short:
 1. install printer spooling software (usually lpr or lprng)
 2. install filter software (magicfilter or apsfilter, would be good
 to
 install all the tools, which they recommend (gs, jpeg-progs and the
 like)
 3. run magicfilterconfig to configure your /etc/printcap file

I have done all these things, but I thought I still needed to obtain
a driver for the printer, in order to print PostScript and formats
other than ASCII text.
 
 I am getting an Epson Stylus Color 740 and I will use the parallel
 connector until the 2.4 kernels are released.
 
 There was something about the Epson Stylus Color 740 on this list
 just a
 while ago. If it doesn't work, look at these mails or in the
 archive.

Thanks, I will check the archive.

 
 I will need to recompile my kernel with printer support
 
 No you don't, because:
 The lp-module and the parport-modules will get installed
 during the installation of Debian (even if you didn't configure
 them
 during installation!), so if you didn't accidentally remove
 them, you should just make sure, that they are loaded, when
 printing.
 (Try the program modconf to tell your system which modules to load
 on
 startup and to configure them).
 Although it would not be a bad idea to recompile your kernel. It
 usually
 makes your system faster and the kernel smaller (as you can exclude
 drivers, which you don't need).

I have compiled a development kernel and I made sure to add parallel
printer and USB support.  I just obtained a script for iptables, so I
can start using the 2.3 kernel.

thanks

--
Andrew

installing a printer

[Pollywog]

I did not configure a printer when I installed Debian.  Is there a
tool to help me configure a printer now without reinstalling Debian?
I am getting an Epson Stylus Color 740 and I will use the parallel
connector until the 2.4 kernels are released.

I know I will need to recompile my kernel with printer support, but I
am not sure what else I will need to do.


thanks

--
Andrew