Printing Trouble

[Duane A. Damiano]

I'm a Linux person trying out FreeBSD for the first time.

I just installed 5.1.  Most things work pretty well so far, but I can't
get the print system to work right.  I can print plain text files, but I
can't print web pages or .ps files.

My printer is a HP DeskJet 694C.  I have a file called
/usr/local/libexec/if-ps, which is an exact copy of the one listed
(called ifhp) in the "FreeBSD Handbook."  The only difference is that
I replaced "djet500" with "cdj670".  (I tried other choices also.)

When I try to print a web page or a .ps file, nothing happens.  I know
that lpr is seeing my if-ps file because when I put "echo test" into it,
"test" gets printed.

Here's what I see in /var/log/lpd-errs:

Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
Operand stack:
   1   true
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   
--nostringval--   0   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1059/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:170/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 45
GNU Ghostscript 7.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Aug  2 14:40:18 swing lpd[606]: HP694C: job could not be printed 
(cfA030swing.dad.org)


What's going on here?  Is ghostscript not working?  (GhostView seems
to work okay - except it won't print.)


I see that CUPS is on my system.  But, I don't see any documentation
for it.  On my Linux system, these two statements in my /etc/rc.local
take care of everything:

/usr/sbin/cupsd
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p DeskJet -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m deskjet.ppd

But, there's no lpadmin on my FreeBSD system.

If someone could give me a simple CUPS solution, that would be fine
too.

Duane

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