Re: Printing Via Wifi

[Jonathan Drews]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 06:47:06PM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Esca??o wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Can somebody please point me to the proper resources on printing through
> wifi?
> I will have an Epson L3250 and wants to print from my OpenBSD 7.3

Here is how I got my Xerox WiFi Lasre Printer to work with OpenBSD:

1) Install the CUPS packager: # pkg_add cups
2) Add the following line to your /etc/rc.conf.local file:
pkg_scripts=cupsd. Reboot the computer to make sure CUPS is
running.
3) From the CD that came with my Phaser 6022, I removed the file
xerox-phaser-6022_1.0-22_all.deb.
4) This is an archive file. It contains your *.ppd. Do
$ ar x xerox-phaser-6022_1.0-22_all.deb
(See man (1) ar)
5) After extraction you will see data.tar.gz. That tarball contains
the Xerox_Phaser_6022.ppd.
6) Start a web browser and point it to "http://localhost:631;
7) Selct add a printer and login. I had to use my user account to
login. Logging in as root would not work.
8) Since there is no entry for Xerox, load the
Xerox_Phaser_6022.ppd.
9) In the management settings for your newly installed printer on
CUPS, make sure you set this printer as the server default.

NOTE: There may be an entry for your Epson printer in which case you
can skip the tarball extraction.

I tested the printing and it works with the commannd line
/usr/local/bin/lpr
and it printed just fine. I also printed from LibreOffic and it worked
fine too. You have to use the absolute path name
/usr/local/bin/lpr, /usr/local/bin/lprm, /usr/local/bin/lpq and
/usr/local/bin/lp to print with CUPS.

--
Kind regards,
Jonathan

Re: Printing Via Wifi

[Jan Stary]

It makes no difference that it's wifi.
If the printer is network connected, you can set it up in printcap(5)
as any other network-connected printer.

Make sure that the printer speaks postscript natively.
Otherwise, you will have to jump through hoops,
installing a printer-specific filter/driver etc,
which makes it much more complicated.


On Sep 04 18:47:06, titomarifran...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Can somebody please point me to the proper resources on printing through
> wifi?
> I will have an Epson L3250 and wants to print from my OpenBSD 7.3
> laptop. This printer should work nicely with my office-issued Mac, and
> wants to use it with my personal laptop running OpenBSD.
> Advise would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you.
> 

Printing Via Wifi

[Tito Mari Francis Escaño]

Hi everyone,
Can somebody please point me to the proper resources on printing through
wifi?
I will have an Epson L3250 and wants to print from my OpenBSD 7.3
laptop. This printer should work nicely with my office-issued Mac, and
wants to use it with my personal laptop running OpenBSD.
Advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.