Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:32:45 +0000 From: Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: Setting-up CUPS with HP Deskjet 710C problems Message-ID: <200201010927.KAA16723@smtp.hccnet.nl>
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> At Mon, 31 Dec 2001 it looks like Simon Siemonsma composed: > > Can anyone explaine to me how I should get CUPS working. > > I have a HP Deskjet 710C, so I installed pnm2ppa from the portstree. > > Further I followed the steps at described at > > www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html > > > > When I set up the printer via http://localhost:631/admin it will tell me > > Printer test has been added successfully. > > When trying to print a test page I the message: Test page sent; job ID is > > test-4. > > There doesn't happen anything however. > > When I go to completed jobs I see the printjob with the status: aborted. > > When I order it to restart the job I get: client-error-not-possible. > > > > Can anyone please help me, as I don't understand what is going on. > > > > Simon Siemonsma > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hello, first tell us what connection your using for your printer, or > better yet show us your /etc/cups/printers.conf file. My printer is connected to my parrallel port. My /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file looks like this: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.12 # Written by cupsd on Tue Jan 1 10:19:05 2002 <DefaultPrinter HP_DeskJet_710C> Location Home office DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lpt0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 Klimit 0 </Printer> > I've had to edit the destination in different OS's, especially when > I had my printer connected to my parallel port. My current is a > Epson-777 Color inkjet printer with a $40 Edimax printserver > attached to the end of it with a static IP, so my file looks like > this: > > ################ > > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.12 > # Written by cupsd on Thu 27 Dec 2001 06:44:50 PM GMT > <DefaultPrinter epson777> > Info Epson Stylus Color Inkjet Printer > Location 192.168.7.99 > DeviceURI socket://192.168.7.99 > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> > > ################ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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