Glad to hear that things are working again. There were some problems
with evince in the past, I will take a look and see if there are any
outstanding bugs filed. If not, I will file one if need be.
The "Presto" bits use HAL and a probe program to identify new USB
printers when they are attached. The thing is that many printers don't
identify themselves as the exact model on the sticker. Often they will
identify themselves as "MFG XXXX series" and have several different
models based on the same hardware. That's why your 8150 is identified
as an 8100 series printer.
The ospm (Open Solaris Print Monitor) applet attempts to match a PPD
file to the mfg/mdl data from the printer, but the matching is really a
"best" match and not all that great yet. When we update HPIJS,
GimpPrint and other printer support bits, we should end up with more and
better PPD files to match. At any rate, for the time being, there is
still the potential for some trial and error.
-Norm
Mark F Villa wrote:
> I would have known that if I had RTFM.
>
> I see where you're going so I tried this:
>
> --
> lpadmin -p 8100_series -n
> /usr/share/ppd/SUNWfoomatic/HP/HP-PhotoSmart_7150-hpijs.ppd.gz
> ---
>
> There is and never has been an '8150' PPD - the actual model is an
> HP8150 PhotoSmart.
> In the past, I selected '7150' from 'Print Manager'.
>
> Once I changed the PPD, the commands started running, although
> printing from 'evince' isn't working
> yet.
>
> The funny thing is, when I tried this on a different (forgotten name)
> HP printer, it seemed
> to get the correct model but
>
> Anyway, this got me going. Thanks for the help!
>
>
> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>> Sorry, I actually meant to use the name of your print queue
>> "8100_series" in place of the word "queue", normally I would have
>> written that as (queue). Anyway, what do you get from
>> $ lpstat -p 8100_series -l 2
>>
>> -Norm
>>
>> Mark F Villa wrote:
>>> Norm -
>>>
>>> Here's what it shows.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick response!
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>> me2: ~ > /usr/lib/lp/bin/printer-info -a /dev/printers/*
>>>
>>> /dev/printers/0: I/O error
>>> /dev/printers/1:
>>> Manufacturer: HP
>>> Model: Photosmart 8100 series
>>> Description: 8150
>>> Class: PRINTER
>>> Command set:
>>> cmd[0]: MLC
>>> cmd[1]: PCL
>>> cmd[2]: PML
>>> cmd[3]: DW-PCL
>>> cmd[4]: DESKJET
>>> cmd[5]: DYN
>>>
>>>
>>> me2: ~ > lpstat -p queue -l 2
>>> queue: unknown printer
>>>
>>>
>>> me2: ~ > lpstat -t
>>> scheduler is running
>>> system default printer: 8100_series
>>> device for 8100_series: /dev/printers/1
>>> 8100_series accepting requests since Thu Nov 29 22:53:56 2007
>>> printer 8100_series idle. enabled since Thu Nov 29 22:53:56 2007.
>>> available.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't expect you to get garbage when you print from FireFox to
>>>> your printer. It sounds like the wrong PPD file was associated
>>>> with the queue for your printer. What kind of printer do you
>>>> have? How is the queue configured?
>>>> If it's Parallel or USB attached
>>>> # /usr/lib/lp/bin/printer-info -a /dev/printers/*
>>>> The queue configuration can be gotten with
>>>> # lpstat -p queue -l 2
>>>>
>>>> -Norm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark F Villa wrote:
>>>>> Autodiscovery of printing *seems* to work, but when I try
>>>>> to print something from FireFox, which only knows about a 'Generic
>>>>> Postscript'
>>>>> printer, it prints out garbage. I assume it's expecting HPCL (I
>>>>> have an
>>>>> HP printer). When attempted a direct 'lp' print of a UTF-8 file,
>>>>> the printout
>>>>> appears to be missing non-ASCII fonts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both of these commands worked in nv75.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
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