First time CUPS user, config problems?(success story)

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

Hi,
   I hope this would work for you.. I have recently
installed my printer and be able to print successfully
using CUPS and gimp-print drivers.

What I did was:

1. Install the latest cups printing daemon and
gimp-print or whatever port you will need to drive
your printer(I don't know if you still need those
drivers though) "some printers doesn't need one"
In my case I've installed cups-base-1.1.20.0

2. cd to /usr/local/etc/rc.d then
 'cp cups.sh.sample cups.sh'

3. execute 'cups.sh start'(also, the next time you
boot, you will see that cups daemon will automatically
be started)

4. go to http://localhost:631/admin then try the web
interface configuration of cups.


That's it!
Goodluck





> I tried the web interface, and that's what's not
> printing test pages.  Do I 
> need to move these execs before I try to print a
> test page? 
> 
> Also, CUPS seems to have munged up my other printer
> installations pretty 
> badly, and I don't know what to do to get them back.
>  I guess I'd rather get 
> CUPS working right anyways.
> 
> Thanks!



		
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