Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "nate" <freebsd@aphroland.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: CUPS & Parallel port printing - how ? Message-ID: <1492.216.39.174.24.1022123802.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net>
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I've run out of ideas. and about out of hair. no matter what I do I cannot get CUPS to recognize the parallel port for my printer(Epson C80). I had it working at one point(for quite a while, and i haven't rebooted since then ..). but last week for some reason it got REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALY slow. slow as in 1 page of plain text per 20 minutes of printing. the printer's ink thing would go accross the page once every 10 seconds or so. So i decided to try to install a new ghostscript to see if that may speed things up, there is a new one on linuxprinting.org that was partially funded by epson so i had hoped it would improve performance. but of course then i lost the parallel port option in cups, in the WWW UI the Parallel port setting just isn't there anymore, if I try to add it via the command line it says something like client error - not possible or something. It gives me the port options of serial1/serial2 lpd, http and ipp I believe, and USB too, just no parallel. I have 2 existing printers configured to use parallel ports, from the other version of cups/ghostscript but when i try to do anything with them i get the client error -- not possible again. I removed that version of ghostscript, ran cvsup on my ports and reinstall gnu ghostscript, same thing, removed & reinstalled cups, same thing. no matter what i do I can't configure it to print to the parallel port. what tells cups what ports are available? I am running Freebsd 4.4 on a dual P2-450 with 1GB ecc ram on an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. If there is another way to print i'll try it, but from what i have read the gimp-print driver is the best for this printer. all the docs i have seen say cups should just work, i don't understand why this port would not show up as being available. my kernel is custom built, with parallel port support built into it. thanks nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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