Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:24:32 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jerome Herman <jherman@dichotomia.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS Message-ID: <20120227222432.8a48a039.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4F4AA428.2010503@dichotomia.fr> References: <20120225221433.cba3d0dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F498DF0.5070504@dichotomia.fr> <20120226184653.e695327b.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F4AA428.2010503@dichotomia.fr>
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:29:12 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote: > Not at all, the web admin for adding a printer is basically an html > version of lpadmin. It is just easier with the web site. Easier as in: It leaves _essential_ options aside so that you can't perform some of the tasks. :-) > OK this means the ppd does not handle everything. Might get a little > complicated. When I use the foo2qpdl-wrapper which I assume does use the same PPD file, it works as intended. > They did, then they got bought by Apple... I should make myself more familiar with the command line tool. Still I hope I won't need CUPS anytime soon. :-) > No, please don't blame CUPS, it is earnestly trying to cope with > everything thrown at him (stupid printers, gnome DBus autoconfig, Apple > Mac OSX and so on), and it is doing a fairly good job at it. I know that printing currently isn't as easy as I (with my simple mind) assume. I've been using CUPS in the _past_ without major trouble, and even "impossible" things (like using parallel dotmatrix printers) were easily configurable even through the web interface. Seems that some parts got disimproved to please a certain audience... > I for one > do not want to go back to the time where one had to learn 2 lines long > LPD command just to print in color, double side, with an ICM profile. I have several printers for varying _how_ to print. However, I like the idea of selecting duplex / no duplex in the printing dialog (which I currently do by selecting a different "virtual" printer: Laserjet = b/w two-sided, Laserjet-nodup = b/w single-sided, Samsung = color single-sided). > Getting back to your problem. Apparently you are using an old version of > foo2qpdl, you may want to grab it from the web site directly and compile > it by hand (One of the very rare case where using the default > package/port is not a good idea at all) > You can find the howto here : http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/ > You will need to download and link the ICM profile to have acceptable > print quality. The latest PPD is 24 874 bytes in size. I will try that. I have installed the packages foo2zjs-20110609 foomatic-db-20090530_2 foomatic-db-engine-4.0.7,2 gutenprint-foomatic-5.2.4_2 where foo2qpdl and foo2qpdl-wrapper come from. I'm happy that I now have the "fallback method" of stopping CUPS, starting lpd, and using -PSamsung in order to use the color printer (not often required, it's my _first_ one, I've never needed one, really). Using a Linksys Wireless-G WPS54GU2 print server (WLAN, LAN, USB, parallel) - following Jerry's suggestion - I'll try tp get rid of the USB cable at the next step. Wireless printing isn't urgently needed (as I'm happily wired here), but real networking is much better than this local fiddling with USB (so I can print to the color printer from all of my systems when it's _real_ networked, just as the HP Laserjet 4000d which even runs its own lpd "server"). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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