Mick writes: > On Saturday 15 May 2010 22:56:22 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and > > notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a > > printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and > > HAL printing backend. And on the next screen, I have to enter the > > device URI by hand. How should I know what to enter there? And > > wasn't there an autodetect feature? Is the new CUPS (1.4.3) > > generally behaving like this lately, or is something wrong with my > > setup? > > > > The usb use flag is set. lsusb shows the printer as "Bus 001 Device > > 003: ID 04a9:10a5 Canon, Inc. iP5200". > > > > What is a HAL printing backend? Do I have to add some crazy fdi stuff > > for the printer? CUPS does not even have a hal use flag. Dale, help! > > Did you ever get this printer working with this particular gentoo > installation? I never used an USB printer at all. But I installed a lot of network printers, and one local parallel printer. I could select the device in the web frontend then, it had stuff like 'LPT #1' or 'USB Printer #1' in the device menu. The Gentoo Printing Howto has this: USB Printer #1 Select this when the printer is locally attached to a USB port. The printer name should automatically be appended to the device name. But I see no USB printer here. > If not have you seen this page: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Canon_Pixma_Series > > They make suggestions for drivers that may work. CUPs requires that > you have installed the correct drivers for your device first. Sorry I > can't help more. Last time I tried to get a canon working was more > than 5 years ago and I couldn't find a driver or ppd info at the time. Thanks, this made me install gutenprint which claims to support the printer directly. I thought I had to use the iP4200 driver and hope it would work. But my main problem is another one: How do I tell CUPS which device my printer is? I tried usb:/dev/usb/lp0 (found this notation when googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing happens when I try to print. And now it gets really crazy: In the printer overview I see not only the 'iP5200' I just created, but also a 'iP52002' that has the device URI 'usb://Canon/iP5200'. What did create this?! But printing to that does not work either. Wonko
