Installing a Local Printer (Laserjet 1200)

[tkennedy13]

Okay, I am totally new to BSD, so if you ask if I have tried something...I probably haven't. The problem I am having is that I cannot install my printers. The one that I am specifically working on at the moment is an HP Laserjet 1200 series that is connected through a parallel cable. I have gone to the Utilities >> Settings >> Printers menu in KDE, selected "Add Printer/Class" but when I get to the Add Printer Wizard, the local printer (parallel, serial, USB) is grayed out. How can I get this enabled so that I can add my printer?

My second printer is an Officejet 6310 All-in-One that I have connected to my wireless router. Is it going to be a pain to get configured also? If I select Network Printer (TCP) and click next I'm asked for an address and a port, and I'm honestly not sure what to use as the port. I know the IP address and that is previously all I had to use.

Any help on this sure would be appreciated.

[TerryP]

I only have one question before any one else asks it.

Are you running PC-BSD version 1.2 or 1.3 ?

[gelex]

I am running 1.3 and like he said the local printer (parallel, serial, USB) is grayed out. I also couldn't add my printer.

[antik]

My second printer is an Officejet 6310 All-in-One that I have connected to my wireless router. Is it going to be a pain to get configured also? If I select Network Printer (TCP) and click next I'm asked for an address and a port, and I'm honestly not sure what to use as the port. I know the IP address and that is previously all I had to use.

Any help on this sure would be appreciated.

Easiest and fastest way to add networked printers is to use web based configurator with CUPS.

http://localhost:631

If your networked printer is configured properly then you can add it in Administration tab- that`s all- it should work after couple of minutes (wait before driver database completion is finished).

Or you can do it "hard way"- from Control Panel. Settings->Peripherals-> Printers. Add "network printer", then press "Settings" and type in your subnetwork address (there is IPv6 configured by default). Press OK, and Scan. The choose right manufacturer and appropriate driver.

[tkennedy13]

I only have one question before any one else asks it.

Are you running PC-BSD version 1.2 or 1.3 ?

I'm using PC-BSD 1.3 .

[tkennedy13]

Easiest and fastest way to add networked printers is to use web based configurator with CUPS.

http://localhost:631

If your networked printer is configured properly then you can add it in Administration tab- that`s all- it should work after couple of minutes (wait before driver database completion is finished).

Cool deal. I got the network Officejet printer working by using Officejet 6110 drivers.

I'm still not sure what to do about the parallel port Laserjet though. This printer isn't network capable so I can't hook it up to my router. Why would local printing be disabled? Is this a KDE setting, a kernel setting or something else altogether?

[tkennedy13]

No one has installed a laserjet as local printer before on PCBSD 1.3 and been able to solve this problem?

I have searched Google, manual pages, and the KDE website and haven't found anything that will help. It may be something simple that I just don't know.

[tkennedy13]

Well, after another day of searching. I was able to find some information that helped me solve the problem. Come to find out the problem was that /dev/lpt0 did not have the correct permissions. Once I changed permissions to read/write on lpt0 and restarted CUPS, I was able to install and test the printer without a hitch.

For the others of you who will no doubt experience this problem, more information can be found

here: http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.ph...light=cups+usb

and

here: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42391

[antik]

Well, after another day of searching.

Reported as bug.