Changes between Version 16 and Version 17 of HowTo


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    6262I am using my experience of getting a Canon PIXMA iP4000 inkjet printer working with, firstly, CUPS and then creating an OS/2 Printer Object that is capable of outputting print jobs through CUPS.
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    64 I do use specific Drive Letter(s) in the following text that would need to be changed to reflect the correct drive letter on other systems. Most of the Paths used are specific to the CUPS installation; those that are not would need to be changed for other systems.
     64I do use specific Drive Letter(s) in the following text that may need to be changed to reflect the correct drive letter on your systems. Most of the Paths used are specific to the CUPS installation; those that are not may need to be changed for your systems.
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    80 Why install CUPS? - Simply because it is capable of supporting a lot of modern printers and is continually updated. The old OS/2 printer drivers are not that good, if you can find a driver that works, with modern raster printers and those drivers will not be updated.
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    82 CUPS can provide drivers for more current printers - and should provide any extra capabilities missing from the OS/2 drivers.
     80Why install CUPS? - Simply because it is capable of supporting a lot of modern printers and is being continually updated to support more. The old OS/2 printer drivers are not that good with new printers. If you are lucky enough to find a driver that works with your modern printer that drivers will not be updated to take advantage of all the features whereas the CUPS driver will.
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     82CUPS can provide drivers for more current printers - and should provide many extra capabilities missing from the OS/2 drivers.
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    110110USB backend (if you are intending to use a USB connected printer) - http:// (Need to add URL here).
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    127126  (CUPS, Ghostscript, Gutenprint, eCUPS, Cups.pdr and Splix(for Xerox printers only)).
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    129 The Libc files are required support files
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    131 The eCUPS printer driver is an alternative OS/2 pscript.drv package and has most of the popular CUPS PPD files already included.
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    133 The eCUPS printer port driver provides the "hook up" between the OS/2 Printer Object created from the eCUPS printer driver and the CUPS printer. That is OS/2 knows how to talk to ports that printers are connected to. in this case we are implementing another port to be avialable along side the parallel printer port, the network (lpr) printer port, the serial (RS232) printer port and so on. This driver allow the OS/2 print "engine" to talk to the Cups daemon which it turn talks to the physical printer either over the network or over a USB connection. (note we don't use the OS/2 USB Printer port driver when using a USB attached printer with CUPS - we always use the CUPS port driver and then let the CUPS daemon do the physical IO).
     128The Libc and GCC files are required support files (GCC required by Splix).
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     130PRNDRV.EXE - a useful command line utility for listing installed printers and deleting those that are no longer wanted
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     132The eCUPS printer driver is an alternative OS/2 pscript.drv package and has most of the popular CUPS PPD files already included and can be updated as new printers gain support in CUPS.
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     134The eCUPS printer port driver provides the "hook up" between the OS/2 Printer Object created from the eCUPS printer driver and the CUPS printer. That is OS/2 knows how to talk to ports that printers are connected to. In this case we are implementing another type of port to be available alongside the parallel printer port, the network (lpr) printer port, the serial (RS232) printer port and so on. This driver allows the OS/2 print "engine" to talk to the CUPS daemon which it turn talks to the physical printer either over the network or over a USB connection. (note: we don't use the OS/2 USB Printer port driver when using a USB attached printer via CUPS - we always use the CUPS port driver and then let the CUPS daemon controls the physical IO traffic to the printer).
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    135 PRNDRV.EXE - a useful command line utility for listing installed printers and deleting those that are no longer wanted
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    137136So the data flow is as follows
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    156155Put the PRNDRV.EXE file somewhere that you can find it; I put it into J:\Programs\Utils\PrnDrv
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    158 The libc0*.dll files should be put into either \ecs\dll or \os2\dll
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    160 The basic CUPS Install consists of unzipping the packages under the root directory of a drive (doesn't have to be the boot drive):
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    162   * Ghostscript needs to be unzipped into \gs - so that you end up with for example, x:\gs\gs8.64
     157The libc0*.dll and GCC*.dll files should be put into a directory specified within the libpath either \ecs\dll or \os2\dll are good choices.
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     159The basic CUPS Install consists of unzipping the packages in the root directory of a drive (doesn't have to be the boot drive):
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     161  * Ghostscript needs to be unzipped into \gs - so that you end up with for example, x:\gs\gs8.64 (some zip packages contain the \gs upper directory, some don't so make sure you end up with the correct directory structure).
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    164163  * cups-1.3.9*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT creating the \CUPS directory
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    169 At the end of this process, you should have 3 new directories: \cups, \gutenprint and \gs
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    172 Have 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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    175 Other files are unzipped later as they are required as follows:
     168At the end of this process, you should have 3 new directories of the root directory of your chosen drive: \cups, \gutenprint and \gs
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     171Have a read of the \cups\readme.os2 before proceeding to get an idea of what you are going to do; especially if attempting to setup a USB printer.
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     174Other files can be unzipped now or later as they are required as follows:
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    177176The eCUPS printer driver should be put into a directory under \OS2\DLL - my suggestion is \OS2\DLL\CUPS - you will then point the printer install dialog at this directory during the install process.