Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:35 -1000 From: Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB printer Message-ID: <20080312170035.32b56e67@2590.Belkin> In-Reply-To: <47D82B8C.1060402@chuckr.org> References: <212181.35000.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <47D82B8C.1060402@chuckr.org>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:20 -0400 Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on > FreeBSD, I can't personally recommend CUPS. I keep on trying to get > it to work on FreeBSD efvery year or so, then I need to go over to > one of my other systems. Last one I tried was an Epson Stylus C84, > but I've also tried HP officejets, and I just can't get locally > attached printers to work with cups. I can get them to work with > things like apsfilter very well, but either someone is going to have > to fix the Cups port (it builds, but nothing locally runs) or stop > recommending it. > > Or, does anyone else have it working on FreeBSD? Sure would like to > hear about it, but I've been trying for a long time now, with no > success. > FWIW I had cups working (2 USB and 1 parellel) forever on three separate FreeBSD systems until last fall sometime. It had stopped working on each of them after an upgrade that I have long since forgot. After going through all of the removals and reinstalls, I compared what was installed on these systems with a Linux box that cups worked on. I found that I needed the /print/foomatic-db and /print/foomatic-de-engine ports. After I installed these two ports cups is working fine on my FreeBSD systems. HTH Robert
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