From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 31 18: 1:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 96DED37B427 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16LEEk-0007k7-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:01:06 -0800 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:00:58 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting-up CUPS with HP Deskjet 710C problems In-Reply-To: <200112312215.XAA03959@smtp.hccnet.nl> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. 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