Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: printer not working Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109151038520.1578-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com> In-Reply-To: <3BA391A9.1CD19E0B@bsdprophet.org>
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At Sat, 15 Sep 2001 it looks like Scott Corey composed: Scott->So your printer is found i.e. Scott-> Scott->ppbus0: <Canon BJC-2100/1.00> PRINTER BJL,BJRaster,BSCC,TXT01 Scott->lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 Scott->lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Scott-> Scott->Have you tried the port apsfilter, it is a great automatic printer Scott->setup. It does support Cannon printers. Download it and give a try. Scott-> Now I just got through getting my Epson-777 Stylus Color inkjet working on the second try "ON" what must be the most stubborn OS when it comes to this sort of stuff, and that's Solaris-8 (Intel) and it prints in color right from Netscape. I used CUPS and used the http://localhost:631/printers/ option and the only line I had to change was; [root@SunOS 5.8 ~]-> less /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.10 # Written by cupsd on Sun Sep 09 00:49:02 2001 <DefaultPrinter epson777> Info epson777 Location /dev/lp1 DeviceURI /dev/lp1 <---------- "old line" State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none </Printer> to add the new line DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp1 <-------- "new line" I restarted cups and BINGO. The browser based setup was just a very pleasant and welcomed suprise. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://ForwardSlashUnix.com "UNIX, A Way of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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