Hello,
i have installed the slackware 10.2. On my old slack 8.x with many
upgrades i have use gs and apsfilter to print and it works fine.

No i will use cups. I have installed th cups-, the esp-ghostscript, the
gimp-print-drivers, the extra fonts for gs.
The cupsd starts and i have installed a printer:

lynx http://localhost:631/admin
....

I use a minolta pageprog 6 laserprinter (pcl5) so i have downloaded the
best ppd from the linux-printing.org. I set the pageformat to a4, the dpi
to 300.

If i print a pnm-file, which i have scanned with my hp scanjet IIP:

lpr -P pp6 file.prn

Cups prints not one page, it make nine or more pages of this file.
On my old system with apsfilter and gs this file will be printed
correctly, only one page.

I have tried different printerdrivers laserjet 4 and so, but without luck.

Any ideas.

Regards

Dietmar

Dietmar Segbert <didi.segbert@arcor.de> writes:

> Hello,
> i have installed the slackware 10.2. On my old slack 8.x with many
> upgrades i have use gs and apsfilter to print and it works fine.
>
> No i will use cups. I have installed th cups-, the esp-ghostscript, the
> gimp-print-drivers, the extra fonts for gs.
> The cupsd starts and i have installed a printer:
>
> lynx http://localhost:631/admin

I haven't yet figured out how to get on there (likely something need
set as root).

Instead, I went to:

http://localhost:631/printers

and added a printer. So far, mine's an HP Deskjet 500 set up as a
network printer the printer is on an old NetGear ps110 print server.

I turn on cups when I need it. After the print server has been off for a
while, I need to issue it an IP once again -- here's a few alias from my
..bashrc that are relevant to how I so far have been doing it (it works
nicely for me):

alias cups='sudo /usr/local/bin/cups.sh'
alias prnsrv='sudo /sbin/arp -s -v 192.168.0.102 00C002505653'
alias prnsrvck='ping -c 4 192.168.0.102'

prnsrv
prnsrvck
cups start

Those three commands, then print whatever I want to print.

I really know very little about cups. I found it easy. But i went to
www.google/linux/ and did bunch searches, found article about the ps110
useage with Linux (old and likely outdated print server that works with
a few deskjets), the old 500 being one of them.

(possible new thread) A better print server for me (for newer and color
DeskJets) -- anyone?

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