Hi All,
I have Debian Woody stable running, and have been trying to get a HP 7130 to print via both Cups and LPRng to no success.
They both print the same thing, whether its a postscript file, or plain text.
It is printing
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 [{ %%BeginFeature...... etc.
I believe this to be ps source? why would this not be converted before printing.
I have cups installed on a redhat 7.3 box, and it works, selecting the same settings (HP make, HP OfficeJet 710 Model).
I have gs, all cups system and driver packages etc.
Could anyone have any clue why this would be happening?
Thanks,
Scott
Disclaimer: I'm not a printing guru, but I've seen this before....
Basically CUPS and LPRng think your printer knows what to do with PostScript files....which it doesn't from what you've described.
You want to install the "foomatic" packages (apt-cache search foomatic). These contain the drivers for lots of printers. Once foomatic is in, you can restart CUPS and go to http://localhost:631/ and configure your printers. Somewhere in amongst the setup screens you will get a drop down to select a print driver. Pick the right one and you're done :-) BTW, there is one called "HP OfficeJet 710, Foomatic + Postscript (en)" which sounds like it could be a winner.
Here's what I'm running on this machine (my lapdog, Debian - Woody):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l|egrep foomatic\|cups | awk '{print $2 "\t" $3}'
cupsomatic-ppd 0.20010420-4
cupsys 1.1.14-5
cupsys-client 1.1.14-5
cupsys-pstoraster 1.1.14-5
foomatic-bin 0.20020408-4
foomatic-db 0.20020408-4
libcupsys2 1.1.14-5
libcupsys2-dev 1.1.14-5
libqtcups2 2.0-4
qtcups 2.0-4You can skip the -dev package if you want :-)
BTW, if you have a JetDirect board here's the sort of stuff you'll need to set up (cut-n-paste from CUPS "Printers" page on my lapdog):
HP2100TN
Description: Simplex Printer
Location: Sydney Office
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
Device URI: socket://192.168.184.195:9100/
HTH
Cheers,
James
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