Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of HowTo


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Apr 9, 2009, 1:21:11 AM (18 years ago)
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    9696CUPS port - See http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort for the latest releases
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    98 Libc files required - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
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    10098eCUPS printer driver package - see http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort for the latest release
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    102100eCUPS printer port - http://download.smedley.info/cupsportdriver-20080628.zip
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     102Libc files required for CUPS - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
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     104Libc files required for eCUPS printer port - http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip
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    104106PRNDRV.EXE - http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/faxworks/prndrv.exe
    105107[[BR]]
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    121123The eCUPS printer driver is an alternative OS/2 pscript.drv package and has most of the popular CUPS PPD (simplified) files already included
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    123 The eCuPS printer port provides the "hook up" between the OS/2 Printer Object and the CUPS printer
     125The eCuPS printer port provides the "hook up" between the OS/2 Printer Object created from the eCUPS printer driver and the CUPS printer
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    125127PRNDRV.EXE - a useful command line utility for listing installed printers and deleting those that are not wanted
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    142144The basic CUPS Install consists of unzipping the packages:
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    144 Ghostscript needs to be unzipped into \gs - so that you end up with for example, x:\gs\gs8.64
    145 cups-1.3.9*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT
    146 gutenprint*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT
     146  * Ghostscript needs to be unzipped into \gs - so that you end up with for example, x:\gs\gs8.64
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     148  * cups-1.3.9*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT
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     150  * gutenprint*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT
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    148153At the end of this process, you should have 3 new directories: \cups, \gutenprint and \gs
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    150156Have a read of the \cups\readme.os2 before proceeding just to get an idea of what you are going to do; especially if attempting to setup a USB printer.
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    166 '''Local printers - USB and Parallel attached'''
     172'''Local printers - Parallel attached'''
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    168174CUPS does not currently support printing directly to Parallel printers but there is a workaround.
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    170 1] Create a Printer object using the Null printer driver and select the USB or LPTn port as the Output Port in the printer object Properties
     1761] Create a Printer object using the Null printer driver and select the LPTn port as the Output Port in the printer object Properties
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    1721782] Start the OS/2 lpd daemon (\tcpip\bin\lpd.exe). To prevent lpd.exe from printing the control file page (an almost blank page with few lines of information good only for debug purpose) specify also the "-c" parameter.
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    214220    for USB printers - the detected printer should be available for selection. For other types of attachment, more information will be required.
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     222  *  Example: Device URI: lpd://192.168.2.1/lpt1 -  address of device for LPD printer
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    216224Continue -  click when happy with above section
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    219 Device URI: lpd://192.168.2.1/lpt1 -  address of device - example for LPD printer
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    221 Continue -  click when happy with above section
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    223 
    224227Make: Canon -  select printer make - for USB printers, an attempt will be made to confirm the correct PPD file to use
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    281 3] Unzip the eCUPSPort package cupsportdriver-20080628.zip putting the files into these locations
     2843] Unzip the eCuPS printer port package (currently cupsportdriver-20080628.zip) putting the files into these locations
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    283286        cups.pdr into h:\os2\dll
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    299302        The settings for the CUPS port are
    300303                Host: localhost - or use 127.0.0.1
    301                 Printer: PIXMA  (this should be the same name as used for the CUPS printer)
     304                Printer: PIXMA  (this should be the same name as used for creating the CUPS printer in the CUPS admin above)
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    303306        Close Printer Properties
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    315318You should get the CUPS Test Page printed from your OS/2 Desktop Printer Object
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    317 You can repeat the above test using the \cups\share\cups\data\PReCS20.ps file to test 2 page document printing.
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    320 Both tests were successful here.
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     321The next test is to print a multiple page document from your favourite wordprocessor, followed by printing any other document types from an appropriate application, eg Photos from PMView, using your new OS/2 Desktop Printer.
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