[clue-tech] Setting up Network printer in CUPS?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:07, Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:
> I'm trying to setup an HP-LaserJet6P/MP laser printer on a Linux
> (Debian)/Samba server.  I have my Linux server all running now but I
> can't get my HP printer (hooked up to a Hawking HPS1P parallel-port
> print server) to work with CUPS.

What's that Hawking thingy supposed to do,  exactly?

> In CUPS, I tried to add the LaserJet through the web interface and
> print a test page.  I tried a number combinations of IPP or HTTP, but
> no test page would print out, until 30mintues/1hour later I find two
> copies of the CUPS test page.

Did CUPS actually see the printer?

> I've followed this tidbit I found:
> http://www.hawkingtech.com/newsdetails.php?NewsID=20
>
> I'm stuck at how to diagnose this issue.  One complication is that I
> tried to print directly from windows recently using IPP, but the print
> server appears to crash (I can't check it through HTTP).  Hawking just
> suggested adding an LPD.
>
> Does anyone have experience with a parallel port print server?
>
> I need to have this set up in Samba as well.  I'm not sure yet what I
> need to to do have my users see the printer.

For what it's worth,  I acquired an LJ5 fairly recently.  Plugged it into my 
server and set it up in CUPS.  Then started fiddling around some.  I can 
print from this laptop,  or from the workstation that's out in the other 
room,  no problem.  The key there is that CUPS needs to be running on each 
machine,  and that it needs to be set up so that it's pointing at the printer 
connected to the server.  Some fairly trivial twiddling under KDE,  Control 
Center -> peripherals -> print manager -> configure I think pretty well 
covers most of it.

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