On Monday 13 August 2001 9:00 am, Eddie Watkins wrote:
Hi
I am trying to setup the above printer in cups. When I select the driver and try to print a test page nothing is printed, although the printer light does start to flash. After about 20 seconds the system totally hangs and needs to be reset.
Does anyone have this printer working through usb and can give me any advice, or will it need to be connected to the parallel port to work ?
From the web front-end, select 'modify printer', go through it until you come to the driver selection bit, and instead of the 'foomatic' drivers, select
I've got a 760 working through USB with 7.2 (never managed to get 7.1 to use CUPS properly). Setting it up during the install *doesn't* appear to work; however, if you go into Yast2 during normal usage, you can add it as per normal. Make sure USBmgr sees the printer OK (the usbview package should give you a full list of what's connected). If that's OK, then there's no actual physical problem; it's probably a privilege or a missing link somewhere. (Is your printer labelled 'lp'? - this made a difference for me.) Of course, once you *do* get it working, you'll probably find what I found; that the printer drivers that comes with 7.2's CUPS install are lousy for printing black. Everything else works fine, but black comes out faint and partial. The best way of dealing with this is to compile and use the Gimp-Print drivers (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/) - the version you want is 4.1.99-a2. Download that, and compile it with CUPS support, then restart the CUPS daemon: ./configure --with-cups make make install /etc/init.d/cups restart If you've opened port 631 in inetd.conf and put localhost (127.0.0.1) in /etc/hosts.allow, then you can connect to the CUPS web-based frontend, which is by far and away the easiest way to admin stuff (http://localhost:631/). the gimp-print one. You should then have a working 760 that will print stuff every bit as well as it would under Windows. If you have any problems with this, mail me and I'll see if I can help. cheers, Gideon.