From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 18:42:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B3037B407 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 13Zzcr-0007ns-00 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:50:13 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: printer not working In-Reply-To: <3BA391A9.1CD19E0B@bsdprophet.org> Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Sat, 15 Sep 2001 it looks like Scott Corey composed: Scott->So your printer is found i.e. Scott-> Scott->ppbus0: PRINTER BJL,BJRaster,BSCC,TXT01 Scott->lpt0: 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 Info epson777 Location /dev/lp1 DeviceURI /dev/lp1 <---------- "old line" State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none 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