Help needed compiling printer source code

P.U.Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Tue Apr 25 15:43:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:

>>>>>> I'm trying to install a Brother HL-1230 printer.
>
>>> 
>>> Did you also have a look at
>>> http://linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hl1250&fromprinter=Brother-HL-1230
>>> ?
>> I think you might be lucky: they have got a .ppd file there for you 
>> (Brother-HL-1230-hl1250.ppd ). Download it, put it into
>>  /usr/local/share/cups/model/
>> restart cups by
>> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart
>> and try setup on http://localhost:631
>
>
> No luck! Downloaded and installed the PPD. Cups can see it.
That is one success at least: it means a working driver is 
available.

> I've set up a 
> printer.
>
> location: lpt0
> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs
> device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0
>
> Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error: 
> client-error-not-possible
The most probable reason for this is that some user permissions 
are set incorrectly. We have to analyze this step by step.
1) Try to print directly from the command line:
      # printf "Hello World \f" > /dev/lpt0
    If your printer is connected correctly to your parallel port,
    *something* should be printed out.

Uli.
>
> malcolm
>
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