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kultex

I just installed my network printer and I have no time to work on usb and parallel printers - so just here and not in the wiki. Perhaps somebody else can continue ...

do as root in xterm:

#tazpkg get-install cups
#addgroup tux lp

change some lines in /etc/cupsd.conf (#leafpad /etc/cupsd.conf)

# Administrator user group...
SystemGroup lp

# Restrict access to the admin pages...

  Order allow,deny
  Allow 127.0.0.1


# Restrict access to configuration files...

  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny
  Deny From None
  Allow From 127.0.0.1

set the admin password for cups:

#lppasswd -g lp -a tux

now you should be able to have access to administration in cups with your browser with http://localhost:631/

now you have to install the printer drivers:

a) hplip : for hp printers
b) gutenprint : for canon, epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus
c) foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-db-nonfree and foomatic-filters : several free software printer drivers
d) ufr2: for canon printers (extra drivers)
e) splix: for samsung
f) cups-pdf: for pdf printing

eg: #tazpkg get-install hplip

now you add a new printerin the browserinterface and choose:

LPD/LPR Host or Printer (Unknown)
and add the address socket//192.168.2.1:9100

if you get the error: Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job in /var/log/cups/error.log, then you have to add two files to /etc/cups

first with the name: mime.convs (#leafpad /etc/cups/mime.convs)

application/pdf		application/postscript	33	pdftops
application/postscript	application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	pstops
application/vnd.hp-HPGL	application/postscript	66	hpgltops
application/x-cshell	application/postscript	33	texttops
application/x-csource	application/postscript	33	texttops
application/x-perl	application/postscript	33	texttops
application/x-shell	application/postscript	33	texttops
text/plain		application/postscript	33	texttops
text/html		application/postscript	33	texttops
image/gif		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/png		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/jpeg		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/tiff		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-bitmap		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-photocd		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-portable-anymap	application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-portable-bitmap	application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-portable-graymap application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-portable-pixmap	application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-sgi-rgb		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-xbitmap		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-xpixmap		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops
image/x-sun-raster	application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	imagetops


image/gif		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/png		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/jpeg		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/tiff		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-bitmap		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-photocd		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-portable-anymap	application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-portable-bitmap	application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-portable-graymap application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-portable-pixmap	application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-sgi-rgb		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-xbitmap		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-xpixmap		application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster
image/x-sun-raster	application/vnd.cups-raster	100	imagetoraster

application/vnd.cups-postscript	application/vnd.cups-raster	100	pstoraster

and second file with the name: mime.types (#leafpad /etc/cups/mime.types)

application/pdf			pdf string(0,%PDF)
application/postscript		ai eps ps string(0,%!) string(0,<04>%!) \
				contains(0,128,<1B>%-12345X) + \
				(contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE=POSTSCRIPT") \
				 contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE = Postscript") \
				 contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE = PostScript") \
				 contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT") \
				 (contains(0,4096,<0a>%!) + \
				  !contains(0,4096,"ENTER LANGUAGE")))
application/vnd.hp-HPGL		hpgl \
				string(0,<1B>E<1B>%0B) \
				string(0,<1B>%-1B) string(0,<201B>)\
				string(0,BP;) string(0,IN;) string(0,DF;) \
				string(0,BPINPS;) \
				(contains(0,128,<1B>%-12345X) + \
				 (contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE=HPGL") \
				  contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE = HPGL")))

########################################################################
#
# Image files...
#

image/gif			gif string(0,GIF87a) string(0,GIF89a)
image/png			png string(0,<89>PNG)
image/jpeg			jpeg jpg jpe string(0,) &&\
				(char(3,0xe0) char(3,0xe1) char(3,0xe2) char(3,0xe3)\
				 char(3,0xe4) char(3,0xe5) char(3,0xe6) char(3,0xe7)\
				 char(3,0xe8) char(3,0xe9) char(3,0xea) char(3,0xeb)\
				 char(3,0xec) char(3,0xed) char(3,0xee) char(3,0xef))
image/tiff			tiff tif string(0,MM<002A>) string(0,II<2A00>)
image/x-photocd			pcd string(2048,PCD_IPI)
image/x-portable-anymap		pnm
image/x-portable-bitmap		pbm string(0,P1) string(0,P4)
image/x-portable-graymap	pgm string(0,P2) string(0,P5)
image/x-portable-pixmap		ppm string(0,P3) string(0,P6)
image/x-sgi-rgb			rgb sgi bw icon short(0,474)
image/x-xbitmap			xbm
image/x-xpixmap			xpm ascii(0,1024) + string(3,"XPM")
#image/x-xwindowdump		xwd string(4,<00000007>)
image/x-sun-raster		ras string(0,<59a66a95>)

#image/fpx			fpx
image/x-alias			pix short(8,8) short(8,24)
image/x-bitmap			bmp string(0,BM) && !printable(2,14)
image/x-icon			ico

########################################################################
#
# Text files...
#

application/x-cshell		csh printable(0,1024) + string(0,#!) +\
				(contains(2,80,/csh) contains(2,80,/tcsh))
application/x-perl		pl printable(0,1024) + string(0,#!) +\
				contains(2,80,/perl)
application/x-shell		sh printable(0,1024) + string(0,#!) +\
				(contains(2,80,/bash) contains(2,80,/ksh)\
				 contains(2,80,/sh) contains(2,80,/zsh))
application/x-csource		c cxx cpp cc C h hpp \
				printable(0,1024) + \
				(string(0,/*) string(0,//)
				 string(0,#include) contains(0,1024,<0a>#include) \
				 string(0,#define) contains(0,1024,<0a>#define))
text/html			html htm printable(0,1024) +\
				(istring(0,"") istring(0,"<!DOCTYPE"))<br />text/plain			txt printable(0,1024)
text/css			css


########################################################################
#
# RSS feed type...
#

application/rss+xml		rss


########################################################################
#
# CUPS-specific types...
#

application/vnd.cups-command	string(0,'#CUPS-COMMAND')
application/vnd.cups-form	string(0,"")
application/vnd.cups-pdf
application/vnd.cups-postscript
application/vnd.cups-ppd	ppd string(0,"*PPD-Adobe:")
application/vnd.cups-raster	string(0,"RaSt") string(0,"tSaR")
application/vnd.cups-raw	(string(0,<1B>E) + !string(2,<1B>%0B)) \
				string(0,<1B>@) \
				(contains(0,128,<1B>%-12345X) + \
				 (contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE=PCL") \
				  contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE = PCL")))

########################################################################
#
# Raw print file support...
#
# Comment the following type to prevent raw file printing.
#

application/octet-stream

Linea

Hi kultex

I've added this to the wiki, so that others can edit also.

Nice work!

Paul

kultex

Hi Paul,

thank you very much and by the way I really love your corrections of my bad english ....

but I am not very satisfied, because normally the cups Administrator user group is lpadmin - ok on my machine it is no problem to use the group lp, but for a mulitiuser system, I would prefer to use lpadmin.
groupadd does not work in slitaz and when I add lpadmin to /etc/group cups is not recognizing the group lpadmin.

Perhaps somebody knows, how to add lpadmin.

Thomas

Darjeeling

Excellent tutorial, @kultex ... and wiki, @Linea. Thanks very much for this.

I've been running SliTaz 3.0 Final since months on a computer that hasn't got a hard disk and that doesn't boot from USB because of a BIOS issue. So, I'm stuck with a CDROM drive and 1 GB of RAM. As I have only one local USB printer I wasn't so happy with hplib and the other driver libraries because they come with tons of unneeded drivers, pull in Python and who knows what else. Size matters and therefore I looked around and I found the driver and the PPD file for my Kyocera printer on this web site ...

http://www.openprinting.org/printers

... which has a large collection of printer drivers for Linux. I downloaded the RPM package of the driver, converted it to tazpkg format and installed it. The driver uses just about 1 MB RAM compared to more than 20 MB for hplib. If the printer is turned on before the Cups web interface is started the interface will probably automatically pick up the printer name, if it's a USB printer. If OpenPrinting also has a PPD file available for the chosen printer model this can be used in the Cups interface instead of a generic or unknown printer. The "Manage Printing" desktop file in usr/share/applications has Firefox hard-coded in it. This should be changed to "browser" so it also works with Midori, Opera and others.

Maybe you can add the link to the OpenPrinting page to the wiki, Linea?

Totoetsasoeur

Thank you Darjeeling for the link. Exactly what I needed.
Cheers.
Stephane

Linea

Hi Darjeeling

Link added (feel free to edit, modify)

Paul

Darjeeling

Thanks, Linea.

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