Help how do I install my printer

[mandyw2008]

Hi

I'm new to using PC BSD and am having a lot of trouble trying to install my printer. I have an Epson Stylus DX4000 and I cannot get the system to recognize it. Can anyone give me a step by step guide as to what to do and type. I have been on "openprinting.org" and downloaded gutenprint.tar as suggested by that site. Am completely stuck and do not know what to do now.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks

Amanda

[Oko]

Hi

I'm new to using PC BSD and am having a lot of trouble trying to install my printer. I have an Epson Stylus DX4000 and I cannot get the system to recognize it. Can anyone give me a step by step guide as to what to do and type. I have been on "openprinting.org" and downloaded gutenprint.tar as suggested by that site. Am completely stuck and do not know what to do now.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks

Amanda

Gutenprint drivers are already installed on PCBSD (or it should be). If not
you should use ports to install them.
For printer installation procedure this should be enough
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ups/index.html

If not you can always read real documentation

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html

I believe DX4000 is all-in-one device. I am almost 90% sure that sane-backends have a driver for it so you should be able to scan too.

[Ian_Robinson]

I have an Epson Stylus DX4000 and I cannot get the system to recognize it. Can anyone give me a step by step guide as to what to do and type.

Installing a printer in PCBSD

1. Open any web browser
2. Type in this URL -- http://localhost:631/
3. Click the add printer button
4. Name the printer, click continue
5. Choose the type of interface you have, click continue
6. Choose the manufacturer & model, click continue
7. Choose the driver, click continue
8. Print a test page as soon as you are able; go back to change the driver if the test page looks bad.
9. Click continue to finish the install
10. Set the printer as the default.

The printer installation routine is illustrated here: http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/PR_gimpprint/x456.html

The built-in CUPS help for "What do I do first is here:
http://localhost:631/help/overview.html ... ted&QUERY=

[whitelightning777]

I'm having the same problem. The drivers for my printer, an HP Office Jet T65, exist. The print manager has different types of printers such as networked and so on. My printer is locally connected, but the option for local connected printers is greyed out and so I can't tell BSD to use a printer cable to talk to the printer like I can using the same print installer with Linux.

How do you tell BSD what a local printer is?

[TerryP]

How do you tell BSD what a local printer is?

Technically, you don't, BSD doesn't lock you into any specific printing system; and the answer then becomes specific to ones printing system. LPD would rely on /etc/printcap configuration, CUPS would be best done as instructed by the CUPS documentation; e.t.c.

[matchstickmen]

WOW I got my printer to work, it is a old Dell 1600N

[whitelightning777]

I updated to 7.1 mainly for the Internet + getting flash to work. It does, but the printer still doesn't show up. Are printers with parallel cables supported? My model is a HP Office Jet T-65. Using the CUPS window is useless. When I tell it to print a test page, nothing happens. It does let me go around and install a driver, & seems to link me to the HP section in hardware. How do I force it to run the drivers and print the test page regardless of whether or not it can find the printer?

[elliswr]

Have you tried the HP device manager? It worked great for me, and I think its easier than cups setup (although after running through that a couple times, that isn't so bad). The HP device manager uses hplip, if I am not mistaken.

-Cheers
Wesley

[whitelightning777]

Have you tried the HP device manager? It worked great for me, and I think its easier than cups setup (although after running through that a couple times, that isn't so bad). The HP device manager uses hplip, if I am not mistaken.

-Cheers
Wesley

I just did. It has 3 options, USB, Network and parallel port (which is greyed out). Of course, I use a parallel port because an Office Jet T65 is way to old to use any of the others. So the question becomes, how do I get the parallel port option to be operational and not greyed out? The HP Device manager is fairly similar to its Linux equilivent with Simply Mepis. In Linux, parallel port is just another choice.

[shakky4711]

In the past I had the same problems from time to time getting printers to work which are connected to the parallel port and were not found from cups.

- Check out which modus for the printer port is enabled in the bios options, for the correct printer identification you often need EPP.

- Try it with another printer cable, I had some brand new cables where not all pins were connected. I made good experience with the original thick HP cables from all-in-one machines.

- Always power on the printer before you power on the computer

- I had a Brother laserprinter which was only identified from CUPS when it was not in power saving modus, wake it up from time to time while setup procedure

If it is absolute impossible use a network printer interface, I got one laserprinter only to work with the Netgear PS101 via network and LPD protocol, all other solutions did not work.