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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2005 18:42:13 +0200
From:      Ron <iampure@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com>
Subject:   Re: Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other Windows machine
Message-ID:  <87d4647e050520094257a2dc2a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200505201136180296.7045CE54@mail.intradyn.com>
References:  <87d4647e05052008444f840511@mail.gmail.com> <200505201136180296.7045CE54@mail.intradyn.com>

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> If you can get it working locally it is easy to make it work with CUPS
> on the network.  CUPS is the easiest way to print on the network.
> (though there are good reasons to use others)
>=20
> Start simple: get something (either ghostscript or plain text) printing
> locally.  Until the printer works on freeBSD locally you can never be
> sure it isn't a flakely cable or some simple thing that you are
> misdiagnosing.
>=20
It's not a bad cable since the printer works under Windows and my
previous Linux install(via CUPS)

> I don't remember the original thread, did you go to
> www.linuxprinting.org and follow their instructions?  In most cases
> that is enough to get your printer working.
Yes, I did.=20
>=20
> The hard part is making the printer work.  Once it works, it is almost
> trivial to add CUPS.
I know.

If I want to communicate with the printer to get the inklevels etc,
the kernel crashes. (I use escputil). It's a bug in the usb drivers.



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