Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:11:25 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dummies version of dummies to setup printers in freebsd Message-ID: <bef9a7920901250111g5d130a64wf0b51977b9975ae9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901251854.22352.shinjii@maydias.com> References: <200901251854.22352.shinjii@maydias.com>
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This may or may not be suitable for your situation but this is how I generally set printers up: 1. Install print/cups (yes the full wrapper port) 2. Edit your /etc/make.conf by adding a line that says no LPR 3. Add CUPS_ENABLE="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf 4. Manually start cups (run "cupsd" as root) 5. Point your web browser to http://localhost:631 6. Click on adminstration-->Add Printer 7. Enter what ever you want on the first screen 8. (This step will vary based on how your printer is connected... in this case I assume it is networked like mine is) if your printer is a standard network printer CUPS should find it automatically if it doesn't otherwise socket://[IP] where IP is the IP of the printer (you will have to search the web perhaps for non-network printers) 9. Enter the type of printer it is off the menu (cannon is not limited so you will need to search for the right PPD file) 10. Click on add-printer 11. The user name and password is the user name and password for any account on the machine (I have never tested anything but root or my personal account) 12. Print a test page if everything has gone well proceed if not try to figure out what you missed 13. Click on printers and set the new printer to be your default printer 14. Since by default the base system installs lpd when it is installed you need to deinstall it the easiest way to do this as root do: rm /usr/bin/lp* /usr/sbin/lp* 15. If everything has gone well up to now try to print from the command line with something like "lpr /etc/passwd" 16. If step 15 worked reboot and try to print again 17. (only if you have a desktop manager or other GUI stuff installed) Make sure that all your commonly used GUI applications can print 18. Your done (well almost) 19. (optional) if you do a lot of command line printing you may want to install a pritty print program like print/enscript-letter and alias it to lpr in your .cshrc or the equiv 20. Now your done On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> wrote: > i have a cannon pixma ip1000 and i have tried various ways to set it up so i > can print using methods found through google, but so far nothing has had > success, so id like to know if there is an idiots guide to the dummies version > of trying to setup a printer to work cause im in desperate need of step by > step instructions to get it goin. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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