"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, > qtcups and xpp, the last two packages being frontends.
The last two are not part of potato. Did you install them from woody? > I copied the Optra E312's PPD file to /usr/share/cups/models and was > able to successfully add the Optra E312 printer using their web > interface (running on localhost:631). And I was also able to print the > test page from web interface, and the test page came out fine. > > But that is all I have been able to print. When I try using either of > the two frontend, qtcups or xpp, to print a file, I can see the Data LED > on the printer blink but nothing gets printed. The log file shows the > following: > > (/var/log/cups/error_log) > I [10/Dec/2000:20:40:49 -0500] Job 15 queued on 'OptraE312' by 'ssahmed'. > I [10/Dec/2000:20:40:49 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops > (PID 658) for job 15. > I [10/Dec/2000:20:40:49 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops > (PID 659) for job 15. > I [10/Dec/2000:20:40:49 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel > (PID 660) for job 15. > > I have added myself to the lp group but I don't know if that makes a > difference or not. My printer is setup on the first parallel port: > > (some output from dmesg) > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP] > parport0: irq 7 detected > parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) > parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) > parport0: Printer, Lexmark International Lexmark Optra E312 > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > lp0: console ready > > I also tried using the CUPS-bsd command line utilities (lp, lpr) and > they produce the same effect as well: the Data LED blinks but nothing > gets printed at the printer. > > Can someone explain what I am doing wrong, or what step I have missed > setting up CUPS ? > > Alternatively, is there another way to setup this postscript printer ? I > have the printer's PPD file so I was assuming that this would have been > really easy. I tried CUPS too, but didn't get it to work (potato packages). Since I print locally only, I went back to magicfilter, which works. In your case you could set up magicfilter (or apsfilter) to use the postscript output. HTH Thorsten
