Dave, On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Dave Miner wrote:
> You have your choice of the old LP system, or CUPS. The default is > still LP, you need to use the print-service command to switch between them. > > There's printer auto-detection for the LP system: if your printer were > USB it would have been automatically detected and you'd have been > prompted with a dialog at login to add it. Since it's parallel, the > auto-detection doesn't happen, and you will need to use the Print > Manager GUI (System->Administration->Print Manager) or the lpadmin > command to set it up. > > Or use print-service -s cups to switch to CUPS and then use what you're > used to. Are there any known problems with printing to parallel printers? I haven't had any luck with either LP or CUPS. With LP, I set up the printer and tried sending a print job to it. The printer printed the banner page. Then, it's status lights indicated that it had received some data, but not the end of the job. I eventually hit the button that tells it to print whatever is in it's buffer. It printed about the top half inch or so of the page I sent to it, and that was it. Subsequent attempts to send jobs to it wouldn't print anything. I switched to CUPS, and got basically the same results. I printed a test page from CUPS. The top inch or so of the test page printed, after I hit the button to force it to print, and nothing else. On subsequent attempts the CUPS web admin interface shows "Printer busy; will retry in 30 seconds..." I've even tried completely resetting the printer and stopping/starting it via the CUPS interface to no avail. This same printer printed find via CUPS from both Linux and FreeBSD. One other Solaris/CUPS related question. When I get to the device selection page in the CUPS web interface, it lists for parallel ports: Sun IEEE-1284 Parallel Port #1 Sun IEEE-1284 Parallel Port #1(CANNON) Sun IEEE-1284 Parallel Port #1(EPSON) PC Parallel Port #2 PC Parallel Port #2(CANNON) PC Parallel Port #2(EPSON) My PC only has one parallel port. If use the Sun IEEE-1284 Parallel Port #1, the CUPS Printers page shows the device as parallel:/dev/ecpp0. If I try the PC Parallel Port #2, it shows parallel:/dev/lp1. Which one should I use? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
