I'm running 3.6 (wireless support looks brilliant in 3.7).

I want to get my HP PSC1210 printer/scanner working. I run KDE and CUPS does
not seem to be installed so what packages do I need? The manual seems to
have nothing on printing.

Also is there a port of Firefox?

gtoomey

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:06:21 +0000, Gregory Toomey wrote:

> I'm running 3.6 (wireless support looks brilliant in 3.7).
>
> I want to get my HP PSC1210 printer/scanner working. I run KDE and CUPS does
> not seem to be installed so what packages do I need? The manual seems to
> have nothing on printing.
>
> Also is there a port of Firefox?
>
> gtoomey

There is a port of Firefox in 3.6 and 3.7
a quick check showed "mozilla-firefox-xxxxxxxx" in the packages
and in "/usr/posrts/www/" as "mozilla-firefox"

I'm using 3.6 and firefox daily on a Thinkpad witout problems.

Rudy

Gregory,

If you ever figure out how to print with OpenBSD, please tell me.

A few years ago, I did manage to get OpenBSD 3.4 to print. I posted my
solution to this newsgroup at that time. I had to download and
compile the sources of CUPS and EPS-Ghostscript.

Well, I used 3.4 for a while and then upgraded to 3.6. The same steps that I
successfully used to get 3.4 to print did not work on 3.6. Recently, I
tried 3.7 and still no luck.

There is a CUPS package and it installs okay. But, I think CUPS requires
EPS Ghostscript and there's no package for that. I tried downloading the
source, but it would not compile on 3.7. I don't recall the error message
and I was so fed up by then that I didn't spend much time on it. I again
asked the newsgroup for help, but all I got was a response from a guy who
said he was having the same problem!

I'm mostly a linux user, but I liked the idea of having OpenBSD around as an
alternative. I don't do a lot of printing, but I do need that capability.
It's amazing to me that this problem exists in OpenBSD; it was solved in
linux a long time ago. Don't any of these OpenBSD people print?

Duane
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Baltimore MD 21230-5117 U.S.A

Duane A. Damiano <duane@damiano.name> wrote:

> Don't any of these OpenBSD people print?

Sure.

$ cat /etc/printcap
ps|PostScript printer:\
:lp=:rm=ps:rp=ps:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:02:24 -0400, Duane A. Damiano wrote:

> Gregory,
>
> If you ever figure out how to print with OpenBSD, please tell me.
>

Using the recipe here:

http://umaxx.um.funpic.de/howtos/obs...on-openbsd.pdf

I've gotten printing working in 3.7 (2005/06/20 snapshot) with cups using
the following (slightly updated) steps:

1) install cups from ports or packages.

2) download and extract espgs from http://sourceforge.net/projects/espgs/

3) download and extract jpeg-6b from http://freshmeat.net/projects/libjpeg/

4) rename the jpeg-6b directory to jpeg and move it into the espgs source
directory.

5) configure espgs. I used "./configure --without-omni
--with-drivers=HP,PS". Use "./configure --help" to discover your configure
options as you'll need to select the proper drivers. I'm not sure of the
value of "--without-omni" other than it works for me, so I'm not digging
any further. If anyone cares to shed some light on this...

6) compile and install espgs with "# gmake install". I couldn't install
without first creating two directories "bin" and "obj" in the source
directory.

7) go to http://linuxprinting.org and copy the appropriate ppd file for
your printer(s) to /etc/cups/ppd/

8) start cups with "# sh /usr/local/share/cups/cups.sh start"

9) point your browser to "http://127.0.0.1:631". Go to Printers/Add
Printer to, well, add your printer. You'll need your root password to do
this. Don't use spaces in the Name/Location/Description fields. I selected
"USB Printer #1" for the device, "HP" for the model, and "HP LaserJet
Series CUPS v1.1 (en)" for the Model/Driver options.

10) The original instructions say "for printing use /usr/local/bin/lpr",
but in all the applications I've used in KDE (including Firefox!) the
print dialogs default to working options.

Please note that printing works 100% except in Firefox, where the
occasional page will crash the app. I haven't discovered any pattern yet
to the problem pages; some short text only, some images, some mixed...

Also note I got this working with the dreaded HP LaserJet 1012, which I
would NOT RECOMMEND to anyone! It uses some weird sub-set of HP's
proprietary printer language that has caused much suffering to many of
it's users. My next printer will be a PostScript printer.

Thanks to Brian L for the how-to on installing CUPS on OBSD. I have
been trying for several days to get CUPS work. I am using 3.7
GENERIC.

Initially I was getting "Unable to create temporary file : No such
file or directory" error message. Found out 'cupsd.conf' file set
the 'TmpDir' default to '/var/spool/cups/tmp'. So I created the
'/var/spool/cups/tmp' directory and CUPS worked.

I can print to our HP4500 Color Laserjet printer with no problem.