Re: Xerox Phaser printing with CUPS

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:57:07PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Doesn't the printer work with base lpd? Is CUPS necessary? > > Cheers, > > Raf I tried CUPS first and it discovered my printers IP address automatically. Plus LibreOffice printed documents with CUPS without

Re: Xerox Phaser printing with CUPS

2019-09-06 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 09:51:47PM -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: > Nice post but: > > On 9/5/19 20:41, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > 2) Add the following line to your /etc/rc.conf.local file: > > pkg_scripts=cupsd. > > No need to manually edit that. Just do > > ?? doas rcctl enable cupsd > > >

Re: Xerox Phaser printing with CUPS

2019-09-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-09-06, Jonathan Drews wrote: > 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. I don't like the extra typing so I have this in .kshrc : for i in dig lpq lpr lprm; do

Xerox Phaser printing with CUPS

2019-09-05 Thread Jonathan Drews
I am posting this to help others with setting up CUPS printing on OpenBSD. I bought a Xerox wireless color laser printer, a Phaser 6022. Being wireless gets around the USB difficulties. Here are the steps I took: 1) Install the CUPS package. 2) Add the following line to your /etc/rc.conf.local