From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 22:50:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF29E16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from p1028-ipbffx02marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp (p1028-ipbffx02marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp [220.111.132.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C9243D5F for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lukek@meibin.net) Received: (qmail 1703 invoked by uid 89); 22 Dec 2003 06:50:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.8?) (192.168.10.8) by 192.168.20.5 with SMTP; 22 Dec 2003 06:50:13 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:42:14 +0900 From: Luke Kearney To: FreeBSD Questions Message-Id: <20031222153127.B949.LUKEK@meibin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.07.01 Subject: Cups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:50:16 -0000 Hello, I am having a troublesome time with CUPS and printing to an Epson PM-740DU inkjet printer. I have set up cups and it works to a degree. I can print test pages like there is no tomorrow but I cannot print from desktop applications let alone from any of the networked machines via samba. The client machines can browse and add the printer but they cannot print to it. I am using a fairly generic PPD for the printer as I could not find one for BSD in the ports and linuxprinting.org didn't offer much joy. I understand that the printer is roughly equivalent to the Stylus Photo 780 ( max dpi 2880x720 , 6 colours ). When trying to print a txt file from the cmd line I get lpr: lp: unknown printer /etc/printcap shows tamachi: $ cat /etc/printcap # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the # /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file # will be lost. # written for pips780 pm780c|EPSON PM780C:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pm780c:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/pips780/filter780.rev:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: # pips780 end actually having installed the pips780 file from ports I ran the setup script to get this into printcap. If I modify the printer via the CUPS interface it scraps all of the above and replaces it with one line which is the name I gave the printer in the setup. Appreciate any tips or links to howtos that are similar to my situation here. Regards -- Luke Kearney