Try installing LPRng and apsfilter package.
Don't use kde controls, but do it through command line
Only use LPR/LPRng Print System if actually using LPRng, as far as I know
NOTE: all controls are under /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin!!
So you will need to prefix that to get right versions of
Hi!
I'm trying to figure out how to use my network (TCP) printer without using
cups. I'm trying to use the lpd which is in base. I've installed every
foomatic package, hpijs and hplip and even gutenprint. In KControl, I'm
switching to LPR/LPRng Print System and start Add - Add
Printer/Class
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:02 AM, LEVAI Daniel l...@ecentrum.hu wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it is possible to reach and use a remote
TCP printer with the BSD lp tools (like /etc/printcap: rm=remote_host and
such).
Yes. That statement is correct. Should be simple enough for you
=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports
postcsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of
converting filter. For my canon i550, i'm
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I
printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried
to print other formats through gv and open-office.
Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below.
#$OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4
/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports
postcsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of
converting filter. For my canon i550, i'm using apsfilter combined
-errs:
lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports
postcsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind
=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports
postcsript natively (most cheap
:
#rp|remote line printer:\
#:lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
For local printing, samba does nothing
:
For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports
postcsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of
converting filter. For my canon i550, i'm using apsfilter combined
with ghostscript, both available as packages/ports.
Dont know
On 20:33:56 Nov 29, Stuart Henderson wrote:
Unless your printer supports postsript natively (most cheap printers
don't) you need some kind of converting filter.
You mean like a2ps?
/usr/ports/print/a2ps
-Girish
OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I
printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried to
print other formats through gv and open-office.
Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below.
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30
On 11.11-18:31, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
[ ... ]
Could you give any comments about LPRng please?
only that i have never really needed it. the stardand lpr distribution
has always been sufficient. i've never tried to deploy complex
groups/queuing/policies with lpr except under AIX (which has
of any printers that support printing PDF documents directly but i'm
sure they're out there.
--
t
t
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:57:56PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
...
And this is the big difference between lpd and LPRng. With LPRng you
can specify who can use what of those printers even if all the
originators are on
On 11.11-06:51, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
[ ... ]
Now I only know what you people seem to be saying about PPD files and
drivers. I have never used CUPS either.
However long ago I have read that postscript is a PCL - printer command
language.
And most printers these days support printing
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:43:42AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:57:56PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote:
... you can use rg in /etc/printcap.
IIRC, LRNng also lets you make it easy so that, for example, if you have
1000 users in 100 work groups, with 100 work group
these days support printing using postscript and the
LPD daemon which listens at TCP port 515 .
PCL is a printer control language. PS is a stack based programming
language with graphics primitives for drawing. it may also be
classed as a PDL (page description language).
i would guess that you
it for you. Is that correct?
Then what does it mean when a printer manufacturer says
supports postscript printing?
And what is the relation between PS and PDF?
I hear that even PDF is some form of PDL. As you can see I am quite
lost at this point. :)
this pre-processing is supported by cups and lpr
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Any strong opinion on LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS issue? I am not a
professional system administrator and there is way too much Linux and
CUPS around me for my
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Any strong opinion on LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS issue? I am not a
professional system administrator and there is way too much Linux
Predrag,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
As LPD is good enough itself to set the plain text to printer I want to see
what is the easiest way to tell printer how to understand ps files If that
could be done with build in filter in LPD or the one that come with base
installation (I have to read more
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:20:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I
numbering, duplex printing, printing 4 pages in 1 sheet
and so on.
I believe the power comes from the postscript language and most likely
the psutils package.
Saving paper has been the highest priority for me and being a command
line utility a2ps has always appealed to me...
Now I only know what you
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:04:57PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
The difference between lpd and LPRng is one of access control. Having
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
...
And this is the big difference between lpd and LPRng. With LPRng you
can specify who can use what of those printers even if all the
originators are on the same box. I think that lpd just lets you specify
what boxes can
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I am only using this
as a local printer, so I don't really need something as elaborate
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I am only using this
as a local printer, so I don't really need something as elaborate
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:20:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I am only using
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:20:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I
are not drivers; they are
descriptions of the printer and the driver options.
My HP printers have always been able to work that way (just by
downloading PPD file from Linux Printing on the third page of CUPS
web management tool) in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I am not talking about
simple text or ps files
margins to match what the
cups printing defaults were in the print dialog. But, when you're
configuring the printer from the browser interface, the margins
you're offered don't seem to correspond. I.E., first instance is
0 and then goes to 10 and i don't understand what the increments
are. mm? I also
Thanks folks!
On 7/26/07, Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Joco Salvatti wrote:
Windows machines. I've already both CUPS and Samba installed, but the
only options I have are:
* AppSocket/HP JetDirect
* Internet Printing Protocol (http)
* Internet
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Joco Salvatti wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for this issue?
Reading the logs?
--
Antoine
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Joco Salvatti wrote:
Windows machines. I've already both CUPS and Samba installed, but the
only options I have are:
* AppSocket/HP JetDirect
* Internet Printing Protocol (http)
* Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
* LDP/LPR Host or Printer
* USB Printer #1
* USB Printer
Hi all,
I managed to configure my Xerox PCL 6 printer with a generic driver,
the same used in our GNU/Linux distributions, which was obtained from
linuxprinting.org. So far, so good. When I send a file to print, the
job is scheduled in the printing spool, but nothing else happens, i e,
the file
Some newer Windows versions support IPP protocol
so you can skip the Samba-voodoo if you want
to print from Windows to a printer connected
to an OpenBSD.
--
Antti Harri
Hi all,
I've already searched on the Internet and also some OpenBSD FAQ
documentation but I could not find anything that could help me. I'd
like to know if CUPS that is packed for OpenBSD has the Windows
Printer through Samba option, that could allow remote printing on
Windows machines. I've
Hi all,
I've already searched on the Internet and also some OpenBSD FAQ
documentation but I could not find anything that could help me. I'd
like to know if CUPS that is packed for OpenBSD has the Windows
Printer through Samba option, that could allow remote printing on
Windows machines. I've
Darren Spruell wrote:
On 4/2/07, Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/2/07, Bray Mailloux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With cups installed, I've run the lpadmin command to install a network
printing but the console returns this error:
Unable to connect to server: connection refused.
I
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:01:10 -0700
Bray Mailloux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the printer is installed and now, whenever a test page is spooled,
cups will cancel it and offers this message via the web administration tool:
client-error-not-possible
in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf set LogLevel to
With cups installed, I've run the lpadmin command to install a network
printing but the console returns this error:
Unable to connect to server: connection refused.
I believe its because there is no port open for the printing and
computer to communicate through. So, my question is how do I
On 4/2/07, Bray Mailloux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With cups installed, I've run the lpadmin command to install a network
printing but the console returns this error:
Unable to connect to server: connection refused.
I believe its because there is no port open for the printing and
computer
On 4/2/07, Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/2/07, Bray Mailloux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With cups installed, I've run the lpadmin command to install a network
printing but the console returns this error:
Unable to connect to server: connection refused.
I believe its because
Hello.
I am trying to print with a dymo labelwriter 400. I'm pretty new to
printing, but from what I've seen, CUPS comes with a dymo.ppd which
works fine with this model according to some cups linux users.
However it seems that a pstoraster filter is missing, and I was
wandering
Do you know how to tell the /etc/printcap that it should print on both sides of
paper with a laserjet postscript printer? I looked into the printcap manpage
and there is nothing about sides or duplex.
CL
to become
ready (offline ?). It Does not matter if I use the lpc to enable it. It
still says that it is offline.
It simply does not work on USB. What man page have I missed to read. Or what
other thing is it that I don't understand about USB and printing.
Suggestions *very* much appreciated
printing from KDE
with CUPS always seems to be fairly easy.
Best regards,
Rico.
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:48:13AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
During this test I found that every single program, started from within KDE,
crashes when I use the print option from (in most cases) the file menu.
Kprinter crashes too.
This is with or without any cups service
Hi
During my printer testing the last couple of days I have been running some few
tests.
I have made a test machine (i386) running OpenBSD 3.7 with KDE and all it's
application.
During this test I found that every single program, started from within KDE,
crashes when I use the print option
yea that is it.
Glad I'm not crazy.
CP
On or about Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:21:07 +0200
Marc Winiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Chris Paul wrote:
I must be crazy because it's working now.
No, you're not cracy. Go to a SSL-Site and then try to print, or try to
print and then go to an SSL
And you are surprised why?
Firefox is poo, complain to them.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Chris Paul wrote:
Dear Misc,
Just got an Epson MFC-6800 laser printer.
So I install cups for the first time, google for a compatible driver. I can
print using lp. Abiword prints.
Dear Misc,
Just got an Epson MFC-6800 laser printer.
So I install cups for the first time, google for a compatible driver. I can
print using lp. Abiword prints. Gnumeric prints. Firefox now just exits as
soon as I choose Print from the file menu (before I could print to file at
least).
Start firefox from an xterm and then reproduce the crash and read
the message in the xterm.
# Han
I must be crazy because it's working now.
I'll keep starting it from an xterm so if it happens, I catch the error.
thanks,
CP
On or about Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:50:29 +0200
Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Start firefox from an xterm and then reproduce the crash and read
the message in the
Tried that along with lpc and lprm.
Nothing stopped the printer printing garbage
until I deleted the files from /var/spool/lpd/aps1
That is not a Gnumeric problem.
I printed an older pdf file no problem, so the current print
problem seems to be in bk2.pdf which was generated
by the 'print
I have an openbsd 3.7 on amd64 running kde.
Here is the dmesg:
dmesg
OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #31: Sun Mar 20 00:42:28 MST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 1543041024 (1506876K)
avail mem = 1312681984 (1281916K)
using 22937 buffers containing 154513408
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