RE: Printing woes

["Drews, Jonathan*" <DrewsJ cder fda gov>]

Hi Frank:

 CUPS works great on FreeBSD (and NetBSD for that matter). It's very easy to
configure. I have used CUPS on both FreeBSD 4.9 and % current as well as
NetBSD. 

Go to http://linuxprinting.org/ and find out what print driver you need.
You will probably want to install Gimp Print (/usr/ports/print/gimp-print
IIRC)

To set up Cups on FreeBSD:

1) Install the CUPS meta port /usr/ports/print/cups
2) cd (as root i.e. #) to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and copy the
cups.sh.sample to cups.sh
3) Make sure that cups.sh is executable.
4) do: # ./cups.sh start
5) now that the cups daemon is started do:
# lynx http://localhost:631/admin
(you can also do this from a user account using a regular browser).
In both cases you will have to log into root. The web browser will pop
up a login.
6) You can now add a new printer through your browser. See the
screenshots here for an example:
http://www.silbsd.org/CUPS-NetBSD_landscape.html
I know this is for NetBSD but from step 5 to 15 it's the same on FreeBSD.


-----Original Message-----
From: frank brierley [mailto:frank brierley id au] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:16 PM
To: Andreas J. Guelzow; gnome-print; gnumeric
Subject: Re: Printing woes


And secondly, it doesn't require the installation of any additional 
packages as it comes as a component of the operating system (FreeBSD).