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| 217 | | '''CUPS printer''' |
| | 218 | '''Local printers - USB attached''' |
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| | 220 | If you have a USB cable attached printer load the USB backend expand the zip file into the \cups\lib\cups\backend directory. |
| | 221 | Now go to this directory on the command line make sure your printer is turned on and run usb.exe with no parameters and you should get a display something like this: |
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| | 224 | [J:\cups\lib\cups\backend]usb.exe[[BR]] |
| | 225 | |
| | 226 | INFO: list_devices |
| | 227 | INFO: usb_find_busses=1 |
| | 228 | INFO: usb_find_devices=1 |
| | 229 | INFO: open_device[[BR]] |
| | 230 | |
| | 231 | direct usb://HP/Officejet%206300%20series?serial=CN88TFB0P504J4&interface=1 "HP |
| | 232 | Officejet 6300 series" "HP Officejet 6300 series" "MFG:HP;MDL:Officejet 6300 ser |
| | 233 | ies;CMD:MLC,PCL,PML,DW-PCL,DESKJET,DYN;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Q8061A;S |
| | 234 | N:CN88TFB0P504J4;S:038000C484001021002c1800007c2880011;J: ;Z: |
| | 235 | 0102,0503d549016449,0600;BT:000000000000,4F66666963656A6574203633303020736572696 |
| | 236 | 573,0000008F,60;" ""[[BR]] |
| | 237 | |
| | 238 | INFO: close_device |
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| | 241 | If you don't get such a display, check that your USB support is working correctly and that you have connected the printer with a known good cable to a known good port. |
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| | 243 | By putting usb.exe into the backends directory when cupsd.exe starts it knows that when asked by the web administration page, that it should check USB ports as well as network and other ports for new devices. |
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| | 252 | '''CUPS printer install''' |
| 221 | | I created a program object for this with the Start Minimized and Close Window on exit checked in the Properties, Session tab; the object Properties should also have the Working directory set as Drive:\cups\sbin (where Drive is the drive letter that cups is installed to). This object can be put in the Startup folder so that cupsd.exe is started automatically at bootup. |
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| 224 | | As the CUPS browser admin interface seems to be working here I recommend using that interface to Add a Printer. Fire up your browser and point it at http://localhost:631/ (cups home page) and when that has loaded click Add Printer. |
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| 227 | | I added the following Canon PIXMA P4000 colour inkjet (raster) printer and will be using this printer as the example. The text after the "-" is to outline the purpose |
| | 256 | I created a program object for this with the Start Minimized and Close Window on exit checked in the Properties, Session tab; the object Properties should also have the Working directory set as Drive:\cups\sbin (where Drive is the drive letter that cups is installed to). This object can be put in the Startup folder so that cupsd.exe is started automatically at bootup. [[BR]] |
| | 257 | You can of course also auto start this at boot-up by putting the following lines in \startup.cmd (or in the network startup file \MPTN\BIN\setup.cmd) [[BR]] |
| | 258 | CD \cups\sbin [[BR]] |
| | 259 | start /min cupsd.exe[[BR]] |
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| | 261 | |
| | 262 | I recommend using the CUPS browser interface to Add a Printer. Fire up your browser and point it at http://localhost:631/ (cups home page) and when that has loaded click Add Printer. |
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| | 265 | I added the following (network connected) Canon PIXMA P4000 colour inkjet (raster) printer and will be using this printer as the example. The text after the "-" is to outline the purpose |
