CUPS vs. apsfilter--newbie setup problems

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 19 September 2003 11:05 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Friday 19 September 2003 10:39 am, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my 4.8-running laptop hooked up to
> > some printers, and I'm having trouble getting it configured
> > with either CUPS or apsfilter (as someone here had recommended).
> > I've tried to look over the docs, and search through here, but
> > am still stumped for what I'm supposed to be doing.
> >
> > I'm also not clear on why these systems don't interoperate, or,
> > rather, why an entry in /etc/printcap generated from apsfilter
> > doesn't show up in CUPS. It would be nice if you could use
> > these together.
> >
> > First, I was able to configure printing on a local USB printer
> > with each system, though apsfilter has a vastly greater number
> > of drivers available. Is there a way to get CUPS to read these
> > drivers, or to separately install ones that it can handle?
> >
> > I'm not able to get either one to work with a networked printer.
> > With CUPS, I can get it to the point where I can print a test
> > page, by choosing the device "AppSocket/HP Jet Direct" (though
> > it's not a Jet Direct printer, just a regular TCP/IP interface) and
> > using a device URI of socket://1.2.3.4:9100/ , but I
> > can't get anything else to print on this printer. I wasn't able
> > to get it to print even a test page by using any lpd combination
> > I could come up with.
> >
> > With apsfilter, I can't get it set up at all; anything I try
> > gives "lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found"
> > when I try to do a test page.
> >
> > Assuming I ever do manage to get this configured, is there a
> > way to choose printers from within apps? In Mozilla, even with
> > several (dummy) printers entered, the only option for "Printer"
> > is PostScript/Default, and from, say, Emacs, there's just the
> > various print options. Do I have to choose this from the
> > command line outside of the apps?
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
>
> This may sound like a dumb question, but did you start the printing service
> 'lpd'?  The default installation of FreeBSD does not start this service.
>
Please disregard my previous post.  I didn't read the first message clearly 
enough.