USB Printer bafflement - ppd problem?
Ben Paley
ben at spooty.net
Tue Jan 4 12:12:39 PST 2005
Hello all,
I've an epson r300, and I'm trying to use cups.
su-2.05b# lptest 20 5 > /dev/ulpt0
works fine, though it doesn't eject the sheet at the end - I can pretty much
live with sending my own form feed for the moment.
GIMP prints fine too - epson r300 is on the list, and I use the command 'lpr',
simple as that, but it'll print just as well if I use 'kprinter' as the
command (depending on how that's set up).
But nothing else seems to work.
su-2.05b# lptest 20 5 | lpr
just does a little 'reset' jiggle, but doesn't print anything. kprinter does
the same (won't print a test page, and no other programs can print via it),
so does open office...
I've tried 3 different ppd files as the driver in kprinter and open office: 2
which I made with foomatic-ppdfile thus:
foomatic-ppdfile -d gimp-print-ijs -p Epson-Stylus_Photo_R300
> /usr/home/ben/epson_r300_gimpprintijs.ppd
and
foomatic-ppdfile -d gimp-print -p Epson-Stylus_Photo_R300
> /usr/home/ben/epson_r300_gimp-print.ppd
as well as the file which comes with the pips driver for this printer,
ekspr300_310.ppd.
No luck at all. I guess it's a ppd problem, but I can't think why GIMP can
print and nothing else can - what does it know that nothing else does?
Here's some info that might help:
su-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 18
20:09:01 UTC 2004 root at potato.hogsedge.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO
i386
su-2.05b#
su-2.05b# cat /etc/printcap
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
Epson|Epson Stylus Photo R300:rm=potato.hogsedge.net:rp=Epson:
su-2.05b#
su-2.05b# cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.22
# Written by cupsd on Tue Jan 4 19:57:57 2005
<DefaultPrinter Epson>
Info Epson Stylus Photo R300
Location /dev/ulpt0
DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
su-2.05b#
su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep gimp
gimp-2.2.0,1 A GNU Image Manipulation Program
gimp-print-4.2.7_1 GIMP Print Printer Driver
su-2.05b#
su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep cups
cups-1.1.22.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install
comple
cups-base-1.1.22.0_1 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons
cups-lpr-1.1.22.0 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp*
comma
cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS
prin
libgnomecups-0.1.14,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration
su-2.05b#
su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep pips
pips-spr300_310-2.6.2 Photo Image Print System for Linux --- EPSON Stylus
Photo R
su-2.05b#
Any ideas? Thanks a lot,
Ben
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