Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:02:59 -0500 From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> To: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to set-up a USB Printer in Freebsd? Message-ID: <8cb27cbf04071423022fc5d8d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040714063312.8254.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040714063312.8254.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi Mark: The Epson Stylus C20UX is fully supported according to LinuxPrinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C20UX Use the gimp print drivre they suggest at that URL. That means that you can use CUPS and Gimp Print in FreeBSD. 1) Install cups and gimp print (in /usr/ports/print) 2) cd (as root i.e. #) to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and copy the cups.sh.sample to cups.sh 3) Make sure that cups.sh is executable. 4) do: # ./cups.sh start 5) now that the cups daemon is started do: # lynx http://localhost:631/admin (you can also do this from a user account using a regular browser). In both cases you will have to log into root. The web browser will pop up a login. 6) You can now add a new printer through your browser. See the screenshots here for an example: http://www.silbsd.org/CUPS-NetBSD_landscape.html I know this is for NetBSD but from step 5 to 15 it's the same on FreeBSD. As for the USB part, that is handled during the web browser configuration. HTH, Jonathan On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:33:12 -0700 (PDT), Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old model Epson C20UX USB Printer and I > usually print in my Windows OS(dual boot) using that > printer. For long, I did not bother to read the > section in the handbook(setting up printer) because as > I have said earlier.. I print my MSWord document in > Windows.. But now that I have deleted my Windows > partition and I'm only running FreeBSD alone,
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