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Trying to run in XFCE...
When I go to localhost:631 and add Canon i550 printer it installs successfully using canon bjc7100, which I read somehwere would work for this printer. When I run test print it starts my printer advancing paper into print postition and stops there:
Parallel_Port_1 "Printing page 1, 18%"
Printer settings in Xfce show Cups Xprint ver 4.41 highlighted and
BSD-LPR as options.
Shilo's post 'How I do it all' suggests removing LPR to avoid conflicts. How do I remove LPR?
What do I have to do to install an .rpm if my driver is not in tar.gz
Either just install it using rpm (Slackware does come with it, it's in /ap, though usually installed unless you say otherwise) or use rpm2tgz (which may or may not be installed and can be found in /a if it isn't) to convert it to a .tgz and install that.
BJC 8200 yielded similar results to that with BJC7100: Parallel_Port_1 "Printing page 1, 1%" The paper feed starts and actual printing never occurs as did before. I am reading thru 'Printing background and tutorial' make sure my setup is correct before I actually install anything. Thanks much and will let you know the final results if I can get the printer working.
Found these 3 files for i550:
bjfilter-2.2-1.tar.gz
bjcups-2.2-1.tar.gz - ppd file?
bjcupsmon-2.2-1.tar.gz
Do all three of these files get installed? Need instructions on howto install the above...
Do I have to designate the directories to install to? What directories do I install the above packages? Are these source files?
Last edited by NightSky; 11-19-2007 at 07:56 PM.
Reason: Do I have to designate install directory?
Ok, tried to install bjcups-2.2-1.tar.gz, I unpacked it in a folder in my /home/user dirctory,followed these vague install directions:To build and install bjcups and pstocanonbj:
1) Building misc libraries.
cd libs
make
make install
cd ..
2) Building "bjcups" and "pstocanonbj".
make
make install .
Now I have a bunch of folders in: ../bjcups-2.2-1 -What do I do now? BTW my printer just feeds a sheet of paper through my printer every time I start Slack or shut it down??? Thanks
What type of packages are these and which install process should I use?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nylex
I have no idea what the problem is, but please stop creating new threads for what's essentially the same problem.
Problem is that I had been trying to find out what type of install packages
the following are for 3days and thought perhaps my title was not descriptive enough:
How do I install them, Do I use kernel compiling instructions? Or do I use
package install instructions? Are these an "autoconfig" type tarball, or is it a slackware package?
In one of the posts adviced to read Slackware12 Chapter18 and in another post jschiwal' most helpfully, suggested I run "make" as user and "sudo make install", and run "make clean" 1st if I tried installing unsuccessfully before. Thanks
EDIT: Now I know what the other file is. If you printer does not support ppd (but, apparently it does), cups can use filter to send postscript data stream through it (so even non-postscript printers can print postscript data). bjcupsmon is obviously some sort of monitor. You need to check docs for this.
Last edited by Alien_Hominid; 11-22-2007 at 10:57 PM.
Alien Hominid, the link: http://127.0.0.1:631/documentation.html doesn't work. Documentation files in bjcups provides little vague install information regarding install process and dependencies info. But what I need is basic install instructions un tar, install vs. configure, what do I configure and whether or not I have to manually put files,folders in a specific directory? Do i have to use source code and why can't I just use install or upgrade? Too many things I don't know to just untar these packages.
Is cups actually running and is it started at start (it should be executable)?
Code:
ls -l /etc/rc.d
You can't actually install and upgrade because tar.gz is an archive an not a Slackware package (tgz). Btw, not all tgz archives are Slackware packages.
Last edited by Alien_Hominid; 11-26-2007 at 03:57 AM.
I'm trying to understand what you've done but it's hard.
guidepixus550icups-2.2tar.gz - is a guide, how to make your printer working in linux.
To extract it from terminal use:
Code:
tar -xzf your_archive.tar.gz
or use any archiver frontend.
The problem that it is Japanese and I can't read the Japanese. I checked canon USA and Europe sites, but in the USA site I can't find i550 at all, in Europe I can't find a link to linux driver.
I'll download other files, which you mentioned and check, what do they really do.
The above output signifies that cups is running at startup, because:
shows that cups is executable (has x flags). When you want to make some service (in /etc/rc.d/) executable, you need to chmod +x service_name, to disable the service startup, you need to chmod -x. ls -l lists files and their permissions.
Because cups is running, you should be able to connect to localhost:631 and read the documentation.
Last edited by Alien_Hominid; 11-29-2007 at 06:17 AM.
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