Printer Installation

2010-08-17 Thread Rem Roberti
Hi all. I'm having problems installing a printer on a new 8.1 installation. I want to do this sans CUPS and via lpd. lpd is enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. Here is my printcap: lp|photosmart:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :af=/usr/local/share/ppd/HP/HP-PhotoSmart_7760-hpijs.ppd.gz:\

Re: Printer Installation

2010-08-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/17/2010 12:05, Rem Roberti wrote: Hi all. I'm having problems installing a printer on a new 8.1 installation. I want to do this sans CUPS and via lpd. lpd is enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. Here is my printcap: lp|photosmart:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\

Re: Printer Installation

2010-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:05:05 -0700, Rem Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I seem to recall that there could be a path problem with lpr if CUPS is installed and one tries to use lpd, but I've forgotten how to deal with that, if indeed that is the problem. CUPS installs its binaries into

Re: Printer Installation

2010-08-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/17/2010 12:29, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:05:05 -0700, Rem Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I seem to recall that there could be a path problem with lpr if CUPS is installed and one tries to use lpd, but I've forgotten how to deal with that, if indeed that is the

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 11 July 2008, Roland Smith wrote: You should define CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE when building cups. This will install cups's lp* programs over the system programs. The easiest way to do that is to add the following lines to /etc/make.conf: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/print/cups*}

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing

Printer Installation

2008-07-11 Thread Rem P Roberti
This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing from X apps, but I am unable to print from the command line. My main

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-11 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Rem P Roberti on 07/11/08 14:45 This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing from X apps, but I am

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-11 Thread Rem P Roberti
This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing from X apps, but I am unable to print from the command line.

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-11 Thread herbert langhans
Ah, BSD you use.. its likely that /usr/bin/lp what you invoke is the wrong one (there is the path set to it). If you have installed the cups-port, there will be another lp -- /usr/local/bin/lp -- the one cups uses (compare the filesize). Rename /usr/bin/lp to /usr/bin/lp.backup so it will not

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing

HP jetdirect printer installation

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Hollingsworth
Is there a utility similar to hppi for Solaris to install HP jetdirect network printers under FreeBSD? Thank you Tom Hollingsworth Unix Administrator Celebrity Resorts 4700 Millenia Boulevard 6th Floor Orlando, FL 32839 http://www.celebrityresorts.com Telephone: 407-997-5594 Fax:

Re: HP jetdirect printer installation

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:01:44AM -0500, Tom Hollingsworth wrote: Is there a utility similar to hppi for Solaris to install HP jetdirect network printers under FreeBSD? Nothing obvious that has specific support for JetDirect features. However JetDirect printers work well with just about any

Re: CUPS printer installation problem

2003-06-17 Thread David Rio
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:20:06PM +0300, Bogdan Mihalcea wrote: Hello! I have compiled and installed the CUPS package (cups, cups-base, cups-lpr, cups-pstoraster). All went well, I had no errors whatsoever. After, I tried to install (add) my printer with the command # kprinter (Add

CUPS printer installation problem

2003-06-16 Thread Bogdan Mihalcea
Hello! I have compiled and installed the CUPS package (cups, cups-base, cups-lpr, cups-pstoraster). All went well, I had no errors whatsoever. After, I tried to install (add) my printer with the command # kprinter (Add Printer wizard, under KDE). In spite of the fact that the foomatic-db