Setting up CUPS
I have installed a basic SAMBA setup, and am now looking at getting CUPS up and running. Happily, when I browse to port 631 on my server, the web-based CUPS admin screen comes up. Good.
The trick is this: Unlike most other folks, I have a quirky printer I like, an old HP LaserJet II. I have set up CUPS to work with the LaserJet II before, but it was a horrible nightmare. It literally took months of evenings to get going. Recompiling, adding in GIMP, all this stuff.
Fortunately, I can refer to my functioning server to see if the configs match.
On my new server, from the intro CUPS page, I....
- click "Manage Printers"
- "Add Printer"
- Name: HPLJ2
- Location: Downstairs
- Description: LaserJet 2
- click "Continue"
- Device: Parallel Port #1
- Make: HP
- Model: Where is the "HP LaserJet II series, CUPS+GIMP-printv4.2.4(en)" ??? Great.
I guess I'll pick "HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1(en)". This probably means I'm sentenced to the recompiling gulag.
Print test page. Wait 2 min. Page ejects out looking like a spectral view of an audio file. I'm had. It's time to review how to recompile CUPS with GIMP support. Ugh. I remember Foomatic factored in here somehow, too. Bogus.
(one day later) I was working on more CUPS stuff when I ran into trouble with this blog. I swapped out the text editor component with a new one (HTMLArea), and it works fine now.
I'll get back to CUPS later on.
