[nmglug] New CUPS server install, having issues need help.

Beau Bechdol bbechdol at gmail.com
Tue May 6 09:14:18 PDT 2008


I will give that a try. Thanks Brian. I am pretty comfortable with the
command line, and I have compiled from source before. Hopefully I won't have
any issues (knock on wood). :)

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:57 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> How about downloading the source package
> from:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537&package_id=273638&release_id=595643
> and building 5.2.0? I don't know if it will build for you but you could
> try it. Check out the README file in the package after you download it
> for the instructions. If you haven't ever built a package from source
> you'll need to learn the command line a bit as it requires using a
> terminal shell. It's not very difficult but if you don't know what I'm
> talking about you have some learning to do.
> ;-)
>
> Beau Bechdol wrote:
> > I guess on this I will just keep trying. Ill let you all know If I fix
> it.
> >
> > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Beau Bechdol <bbechdol at gmail.com
> > <mailto:bbechdol at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I just setup CUPS on hardy and all went well. I installed CUPS
> >     fine,The printer added fine, recognize fine and was showing up
> >     fine. The issue that I have is that when I try to print anything
> >     from any machine on my network all it prints is page after page
> >     after page of white paper. No matter what setting i change it wont
> >     fix it. I did see that it is using the Gutenprint 5.0.2 driver. I
> >     belive that this is a driver related issue. I did some digging and
> >     found that it seems that the 5.0.2 driver doent like Epson
> >     printers. How can I update it to the latest or 5.1.7.
> >     <http://5.1.7.> Some one said that that seems to have fixed it. I
> >     just dont know how to update it or get new drivers.
> >
> >     Can someone help me please ?
> >
> >     Thanks in advance
> >
> >
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