dummies version of dummies to setup printers in freebsd

[Aryeh Friedman]

This may or may not be suitable for your situation but this is how I
generally set printers up:

1. Install print/cups (yes the full wrapper port)
2. Edit your /etc/make.conf by adding a line that says no LPR
3. Add CUPS_ENABLE="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf
4. Manually start cups (run "cupsd" as root)
5. Point your web browser to http://localhost:631
6. Click on adminstration-->Add Printer
7. Enter what ever you want on the first screen
8. (This step will vary based on how your printer is connected... in
this case I assume it is networked like mine is)
   if your printer is a standard network printer CUPS should find it
automatically if it doesn't otherwise socket://[IP] where IP is the IP
of the printer (you will have to search the web perhaps for
non-network printers)
9. Enter the type of printer it is off the menu (cannon is not limited
so you will need to search for the right PPD file)
10. Click on add-printer
11. The user name and password is the user name and password for any
account on the machine (I have never tested anything but root or my
personal account)
12. Print a test page if everything has gone well proceed if not try
to figure out what you missed
13. Click on printers and set the new printer to be your default printer
14. Since by default the base system installs lpd when it is installed
you need to deinstall it the easiest way to do this as root do:
      rm /usr/bin/lp* /usr/sbin/lp*

15. If everything has gone well up to now try to print from the
command line with something like "lpr /etc/passwd"
16. If step 15 worked reboot and try to print again
17. (only if you have a desktop manager or other GUI stuff installed)
Make sure that all your commonly used GUI applications can print
18. Your done (well almost)
19. (optional) if you do a lot of command line printing you may want
to install a pritty print program like print/enscript-letter and alias
it to lpr in your .cshrc or the equiv
20. Now your done

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Warren Liddell <shinjii at maydias.com> wrote:
> i have a cannon pixma ip1000 and i have tried various ways to set it up so i
> can print using methods found through google, but so far nothing has had
> success, so id like to know if there is an idiots guide to the dummies version
> of trying to setup a printer to work cause im in desperate need of step by
> step instructions to get it goin.
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