On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 05:17, James Mohr wrote:
Hi All!
I have been given the unenviable task of trying to figure our problems with a printer by telephone. We have a Kyocera FS 3820N to which we can print from Windows and it connected to the IP port 9100. In CUPS, I have then created the device and it shows up like this:
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs. "Ready to print." Device URI: socket://10.10.20.196:9100/
Based on the working windows configuration these seems like best otpion. Jobs seem to complete, but nothing ever comes out.
I suggest that you look at the different logs in /var/log/cups/ to determine what errors you are getting. You may have to increase the debug level in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to get more meaningfull error messages. Please be carefull with the debug levels as you will end up with so many messages that it is impossible to find out anything sensible. If you are having problems printing from windows to cups, I suggest you look at is the two mime files in /etc/cups. Enabling the application/octet-stream in both files may solve your problem.
I looked on the Kyocera page and in the product sheet they say there is a PPD for Linux/Unix. My assumption is there is a CD for this printer that contains the PPD file. However, at the point I am running out of steam. I poked around a little on Google but found nothing helpful about the printer or installing a PPD (should I find one). So If anyone can help me out with this oru at least give me a good shove, I would really appreaciate it.
Regarding ppd files I would start by looking at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Kyocera-FS-3800 You should be able to find printer drivers from http://usa.kyoceramita.com/KMAGlobalpub/jsp/Kyocera/download_center.jsp You can generally use the ppd file associated with Windows NT 4 drivers with cups. The actual ppd's for cups are located in /usr/share/cups/model/Kyocera/ All the ppd's are compressed but you can copy uncompressed ppd's into this directory without any problems. You will then be able to use these ppd's with Yast or any other installer. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------