Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
I'm currently using foomatic-rip with lpd(8) for standard print, but find myself using foomatic-rip directly, without spooling, when I need to set a print option such as papersize or InputPort (tray). I am not using apsfilter, which uses lpr(1)'s -C option to pass print options, as I am using the printer vendor's supplied PPD file with Foomatic. I am wondering how others are managing print options with Postscript printers.
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
Josh Grosse wrote: > I'm currently using foomatic-rip with lpd(8) for standard print, but find > myself using foomatic-rip directly, without spooling, when I need to set > a print option such as papersize or InputPort (tray). > > I am not using apsfilter, which uses lpr(1)'s -C option to pass print > options, as I am using the printer vendor's supplied PPD file with Foomatic. > > I am wondering how others are managing print options with Postscript printers. I had a similar setup some time ago. If I remember correctly, you can use lpr's -J option to pass options to foomatic-rip. Regards André
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:36:35PM +0100, Andr?? St??be wrote: > I had a similar setup some time ago. If I remember correctly, you can > use lpr's -J option to pass options to foomatic-rip. Thank you, Andre'. I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o operand does work with print options when printing directly. /etc/rc.conf.local contains: lpd_flags="" /etc/printcap is: lp|printer:\ :lp=:rm=printer:\ :af=/etc/foomatic/hp-lj_300_400_color_m351_m451-ps.ppd:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ :sh:mx#0:\ :sd=/var/spool/output:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: I'm using a recent snapshot that includes patch 1.52 to usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/printjob.c for remote lpd: kern.version=OpenBSD 5.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #239: Fri Feb 21 02:38:36 MST 2014 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:51:22PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > operand does work with print options when printing directly. To be clear, the symptom is that -J has no effect. No errors or warnings are produce in lpd-errs.
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
Josh Grosse wrote: > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > operand does work with print options when printing directly. Are you sure? I've used this in conjunction with the options defined in the PPD file. Try "foomatic-ppd-options /etc/foomatic/hp-lj_300_400_color_m351_m451-ps.ppd" and see if you can pass any of these options. Regards André
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:03:27AM +0100, Andr?? St??be wrote: > Josh Grosse wrote: > > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > > operand does work with print options when printing directly. > > Are you sure? I've used this in conjunction with the options defined in > the PPD file. > > Try "foomatic-ppd-options > /etc/foomatic/hp-lj_300_400_color_m351_m451-ps.ppd" > and see if you can pass any of these options. I'm sure. Here's an example: $ foomatic-rip -o InputSlot=Tray1_Man myfile.ps The printer prompts for media to be manually loaded in Tray 1 $ lpr -J InputSlot=Tray1_Man myfile.ps The printer prints from Tray 2 immediately.
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
On Feb 24 11:38:40, j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote: > I'm currently using foomatic-rip with lpd(8) for standard print, but find > myself using foomatic-rip directly, without spooling, when I need to set > a print option such as papersize or InputPort (tray). > > I am not using apsfilter, which uses lpr(1)'s -C option to pass print > options, as I am using the printer vendor's supplied PPD file with Foomatic. > > I am wondering how others are managing print options with Postscript printers. To be sure: you only need foomatic to pass the _options_, right? Because if it is a Postscript printer, you can print with just plain lpd and do not need foomatic or apsfilter or (god forbid) CUPS. As in: lp:lp=:rm=147.32.232.58:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd.log:sf:sh
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
On Feb 24 16:51:22, j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:36:35PM +0100, Andr?? St??be wrote: > > > I had a similar setup some time ago. If I remember correctly, you can > > use lpr's -J option to pass options to foomatic-rip. > > Thank you, Andre'. > > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > operand does work with print options when printing directly. > > /etc/rc.conf.local contains: > > lpd_flags="" > > /etc/printcap is: > > lp|printer:\ > :lp=:rm=printer:\ > :af=/etc/foomatic/hp-lj_300_400_color_m351_m451-ps.ppd:\ > :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ > :sh:mx#0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/output:\ > :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: Quoting directly from printcap(5): The if filter is invoked with arguments: if [-c] -wwidth -llength -iindent -n login -h host acct-file The -c flag is passed only if the -l flag (pass control characters literally) is specified to lpr(1). width and length specify the page width and length (from pw and pl, respectively) in characters. The -n and -h parameters specify the login name and host name of the owner of the job, respectively. The acct-file function is passed from the af printcap entry. I don't think there is some other way to pass any more Postscript options in your lpr line that would get to the if script (foomatic). You can run a script (if = foomatic) and give it an argument (af = PPD), but I think that's all.
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:26:32AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > To be sure: you only need foomatic to pass the _options_, right? That was my intent, yes. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:36:13AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > Quoting directly from printcap(5): [snip] > I don't think there is some other way to pass any more Postscript options > in your lpr line that would get to the if script (foomatic). You can run > a script (if = foomatic) and give it an argument (af = PPD), > but I think that's all. Thank you. I may test having multiple queues each with its own PPD with different defaults set (PageSize, InputSlot, etc.) but I may end up deploying print/cups with print/hplip just for operational simplicity.
Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?
I know that many people were very frustrated when upstream broke foomatic-rip for LPD users. Thanks to Antoine Jacoutot many of us will be CUPS free for years to come. I am leaving internet trace for people who would be looking for the info but Antoine documentation /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/cups-filters-1.0.54p2 is golden standard. In the nut shell what I did: 0. Install foomatic-rip, drivers (in my case hpijs), a2ps, ImageMagick 1. Edit /etc/printcap as lp|HP|HP-PhotoSmart_C5200:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :if=/etc/foomatic-rip/script.sh:\ :sh:sd=/var/spool/output:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: 2. Create /etc/foomatic-rip.script.sh and make it executable #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/a2ps -BRq --columns=1 -o - | \ /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip -P HP-PhotoSmart_C5200 --ppd \ /etc/foomatic-rip/direct/hp-photosmart_c5200_series-hpijs.ppd 3. Add hp-photosmart_c5200_series-hpijs.ppd to /etc/foomatic-rip/direct 4. Adjust permission on ulpt0 and ugen devices. 5. Start lpd daemon and be happy camper. Cheers, Predrag
