From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 1:27:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EA637B41D for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from there by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.94.168] with SMTP for id KAA16723 (8.8.8/1.13); Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:27:44 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200201010927.KAA16723@smtp.hccnet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Simon Siemonsma To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: Setting-up CUPS with HP Deskjet 710C problems Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:32:45 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At Mon, 31 Dec 2001 it looks like Simon Siemonsma composed: > > Can anyone explaine to me how I should get CUPS working. > > I have a HP Deskjet 710C, so I installed pnm2ppa from the portstree. > > Further I followed the steps at described at > > www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html > > > > When I set up the printer via http://localhost:631/admin it will tell me > > Printer test has been added successfully. > > When trying to print a test page I the message: Test page sent; job ID is > > test-4. > > There doesn't happen anything however. > > When I go to completed jobs I see the printjob with the status: aborted. > > When I order it to restart the job I get: client-error-not-possible. > > > > Can anyone please help me, as I don't understand what is going on. > > > > Simon Siemonsma > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hello, first tell us what connection your using for your printer, or > better yet show us your /etc/cups/printers.conf file. My printer is connected to my parrallel port. My /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file looks like this: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.12 # Written by cupsd on Tue Jan 1 10:19:05 2002 Location Home office DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lpt0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 Klimit 0 > I've had to edit the destination in different OS's, especially when > I had my printer connected to my parallel port. My current is a > Epson-777 Color inkjet printer with a $40 Edimax printserver > attached to the end of it with a static IP, so my file looks like > this: > > ################ > > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.12 > # Written by cupsd on Thu 27 Dec 2001 06:44:50 PM GMT > > Info Epson Stylus Color Inkjet Printer > Location 192.168.7.99 > DeviceURI socket://192.168.7.99 > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > > > ################ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message