Printing to a network photosmart printer

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 06/08/04 05:46 PM, Warren Block sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> >> See /usr/ports/print/hpijs.
> >
> > This certainly claims to work.  I'm not understanding something
> > though.  I'm trying to set it up through /etc/printcap as described,
> > but I still get the same problem after restarting lpd.
> >
> > I've downloaded the ppd, done the edits as recommended, and the
> > /etc/printcap entry is as follows:
> >
> >
> > Here's where I'm not sure:  The command I added to the ppd file is:
> > *FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| rlpr -Plp at printer"
> >
> > Now, I changed this under the assumption that the queue on the printer
> > is named lp.  The machine is reachable (and pingable) at the dns name
> > "printer" so I'm sure that part is correct.
> 
> HP JetDirects use "raw" for the queue name.  Here is your printcap with 
> some suggested changes:
> 
> > lp|HP PSC 2510:\
>       :lp=:\
> >    :rm=printer:\
>       :rp=raw:\
> >    :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
> >    :af=/usr/local/etc/cups/ppd/HP-PSC_2500-hpijs.ppd:\
> >    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>       :mx#0:\
> >    :sh:
> 
> (Your if= and af= might be wrong; don't know.)


Thank you *very* much for your help Warren.  It turned out something
was still wrong.  I tried the CUPS install, and apparently found
something right, because I managed to get a test page printed from the
web interface to CUPS.  Looked pretty darn good actually.

The printcap file was automatically generated from the web management
input (http://localhost:631) which was pretty easy.  The only thing in
the printcap other than comments was
lp|lp:rm=keyslapper.org:rp=lp:

Once I got cups-lpr installed, it works fine.  Now the tricky part is
remembering the path to the cups version.  I can live with that.

Thanks again.

Lou
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