Kevin Monceaux wrote: > 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. >
I'm not aware of any specific problems, but I don't have any parallel printers, either. I'd suggest asking the Printing community list, as the experts hang out there. > 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? I think you should be using the first choice, as ecpp0 is the device node I'd expect, but again, don't have a parallel printer to verify with. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
