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dtf

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Posted: April 02 2006,04:34

eco2geek - that is what I tried but was not successful (maybe you would have better luck). I could not evey produce a log file so I do not know where the issue is. cbagger01 is suggesting that we try and pick up CUPS (and the foomatic scripts) using apt-get. But I am not familar with how this works and only have a very limited understanding of what this procedure does. I believe it downloads and installs the debian linux cupsys package but do not know the specifics of how this works. I need to understand the command that is used and how you handle dependencies or are the dependencies handled automaticly. From your earlier post I thought you might have some experience with this procedure and might want to give it a try.

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Posted: April 04 2006,01:48

I was just able to get a laser printer working using the foomatic.zip It's a strange minolta pagepro 1350w printer that connects via usb. I had to compile the driver and put it in /usr/local/bin. I'm using a frugal install.

cycle your cups daemon often... and/or do a force reload.

Do you see anything in /var/log/cups ?

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Posted: April 05 2006,23:38

newOldUser - where did you get the foomatic.zip (from the CUPS site)?

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Posted: April 06 2006,11:07

dtf ... I downloaded it from the link in item number 4 on this LinuxPrinting.org website

I setup cups and the printer following the instructions on that page.

usr/share/cups/model/min12xxw.ppd
usr/bin/foomatic-gswrapper
usr/bin/foomatic-rip
create symbolic link in usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
usr/local/bin/min12xxw

The min12xxw is a 'filter' type driver that I had to download and compile. It's the driver for a Minolta PagePro 1350W black and white laser printer.

In addition to the above files I also save these when I shutdown my frugal install.

etc/cups/ppd/pagepro.ppd
etc/cups/ppds.dat
etc/cups/printers.conf
etc/cups/printers.conf.O

I don't know if I needed the foomatic-gswrapper but I added it anyway.

Good luck

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Posted: April 06 2006,23:06

newOldUser - Well at least it is trying although I am not sure what it is trying to tell me. The printer is connected to another dsl computer providing print service and I know it is working because I can print to it using GIMP-print with a different ppd file. Any ideas.

I [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
I [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1525) for job 1.
I [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 1526) for job 1.
I [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp (PID 1527) for job 1.
I [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
I [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Printer 'kinux_5740_ppd' started by 'root'.
E [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] PID 1526 stopped with status 2!
E [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] Print file was not accepted (client-error-bad-request)!
E [06/Apr/2006:17:53:02 -0400] PID 1527 stopped with status 1!

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