The OS/2 port of CUPS has several required components.
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'''Warpin Archive'''

The required components (includes all listed below as ZIP files) can be downloaded in 1 "eCUPS Printing System" Warpin Archive initially from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/eCUPS003.wpi and expected to move to ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/ecups/eCUPS003.wpi

Read the displayed Readme text carefully to help decide which of the components you need to install before selecting packages for installation.

This package also contains the cups HowTo in INF format which is opened in the Help Viewer and will also start the CUPS Printer setup; both of these events occur at the end of the package installation. Refer to the displayed "How To" in order to setup a printer.

'''Note:''' The above Warpin Archive was designed to be installed to eComStation systems. It should also install to OS/2 Warp4 systems. This would result in the OS/2 system acquiring an ecs directory tree on the boot drive in the event of Docs and/or Support dll files being installed - Just something OS/2 users need to be aware of.

Warpin 1.0.8 or later is required in order to install this Archive ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/
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'''ZIP files'''

The alternative is to download all required packages in ZIP file format and perform a manual installation. Check the installation notes and any included readme files plus the HowTo mentioned below to help install the packages and setup a printer:


[http://www.cups.org CUPS] - OS/2 binary from http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.4.4-os2-20100811.zip

[http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost Ghostscript] - OS/2 binary from http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/index.php?page=ghostscript

Depending on your printer, you most likely need one of the following:
[http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net Gutenprint] - OS/2 binary from http://download.smedley.info/gutenprint-5.2.5-os2-20100216.zip - list of supported printers is at http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php

[http://hplipopensource.com HP lip] - OS/2 binary from http://download.smedley.info/hplip-3.9.12-os2-20100218.zip

[http://splix.ap2c.org Splix] - OS/2 port of v1.1.1 from http://download.smedley.info/splix-1.1.1-os2-20081226.zip (needs [http://smedley.info/gcc432.zip GCC432.DLL] - list of supported printers at http://splix.ap2c.org/ - all Samsung or Xerox printers

eCups.drv: A modified version of IBM's pscript.drv with improvements to compatibility with CUPS.  New version: http://download.smedley.info/ecups-driver-20090324.zip - includes 650 or so printers from Gutenprint 5.2.3 and all printers from Splix v1.1.1

[http://download.smedley.info/cupsportdriver-20090410.zip cups.pdr] - port driver to allow print jobs to be queued to a cups server from OS/2 applications - [http://download.smedley.info/cupsportdriver-20090410-src.zip source available]

Installation notes:
CUPS and Gutenprint/Splix/HPLIP need to be extracted into the root directory of the SAME drive - some Gutenprint/Splix/HPLIP files need to be installed into the CUPS directories.

Ghostscript also needs to be installed.  The current CUPS build expects to find gsos2.exe in \gs\gs8.70\bin\gsos2.exe - ie on the same drive as CUPS.  If this isn't the location of Ghostscript, you can edit \cups\lib\cups\filter\pstoraster and edit the PREFIX which points to the Ghostscript location.

Refer to the CUPS [wiki:HowTo] for more details on how to use CUPS, particularly the stuff on setting up the port driver and importing PPD files into pscript.drv
work in progress.... 

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