Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

[Keith Seyffarth]

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> This makes no sense at all.  DLLs are a Windows version of a library.  FreeBSD 

That's what I thought.  Here's the line in question:
D [20/Apr/2009:13:07:46 -0600] [CGI] /usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll: No such file or directory

> doesn't use them.  Are you by any chance trying to print through Wine?

Nope. Don't have Wine installed.

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> Do you have the startup script:
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd ?

yes

> If so, what is the output of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd status?

currently it's:
cupsd is running as pid 721.

but I did start cups manually since my last reboot.

> You should have the following files and folders:
> 
> /usr/local/etc/cups/
> classes.conf        interfaces/         mime.types.N        pstoraster.convs
> cupsd.conf          mime.convs          ppd/                snmp.conf
> cupsd.conf.N        mime.convs.N        printers.conf       snmp.conf.N
> cupsd.conf.default  mime.types          printers.conf.O     ssl/

$ ls /usr/local/etc/cups/
classes.conf            cupsd.conf.default      printers.conf
classes.conf.O          interfaces              printers.conf.O
command.types           mime.convs              pstoraster.convs
cups-pdf.conf           mime.convs.N            snmp.conf
cups-pdf.conf.sample    mime.types              snmp.conf.N
cupsd.conf              mime.types.N            ssl
cupsd.conf.O            ppd


> What's the output of this command?
> # grep -v "#" /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

LogLevel debug
SystemGroup wheel
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups.sock
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin>
  Encryption Required
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Policy default>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job
  Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription
  Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications
  Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job
  CUPS-Move-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer
  CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer
  Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs
  Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer
  Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs
  CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>

> What's the output of this command?
> # cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printer.conf

$ cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.9
# Written by cupsd on 2009-04-20 12:51
<DefaultPrinter HP>
Info HP Officejet 4100
Location wherever
DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0
State Idle
StateTime 1240253002
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer PDFWriter>
Info Creates PDF files in /var/spool/cups-pdf/
Location Internal
DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1231089826
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

> Have you read the CUPS documentation?
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/overview.html

Most of that, plus the information in the FreeBSD handbook and FAQ,
and several sites instructions on setting up CUPS, and several pages
specifically on getting an OfficeJet 4110 working on Unix in general
or FreeBSD in particular, with or without CUPS, and a bunch of the
stuff in the online documentation in CUPS (from the Documentation/Help
tab; which seems to be the same as the documentation from CUPS.org).

It works well for creating .pdf files, but, from what I've seen so far
(with only one piece of hardware to try to work with), not very well
for getting a hardcopy directly.