Michael F. Robbins on Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:48:08 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] CUPS Printing?


On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 12:19, Noah Silva wrote:
> I already had this installed.  Actually I installed the .ppd file now so
> CUPS thinks I have a valid installed printer, but I don't think it is
> actually calling the "oki4lin" driver to actually PRINT ;)  Nor do I
> know in which config file I would tell it to do this.

/etc/cups/ppd/[PRINTERNAME].ppd is a copy of the file in
/usr/share/cups/model.  But make sure you have ghostscript installed
(apt-get install gs).
 
> As it stands now, I can print, and cups will accept it and add it to the
> queue, but the queue never actually gets printed.  I can see a message
> in the log file saying something like "cupsd: starting back-end:
> parallel", and that's as far as I see.

Hmm...  I thought that the hardware layer, like parallel in this case,
comes after the interpreter layer (i.e ghostscript).  So that's probably
a good sign.  Make sure your parallel port has proper permissions.

Michael F. Robbins
mike@gamerack.com

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