Re: [gentoo-dev] Printing: CUPS and HP LaserJet on JetDirect

[Marko Mikulicic]

Denis Shcherbakov wrote:

> Then I got a tip from Donny Davies (a Gentoo Developer), who forwarded to
> me Jeffrey D. Kowing's message regarding this matter in [gentoo-dev],
> where he says that getting a fresh *.ppd from sourceforge.net solves the
> problem.  So I went to sourceforge and got a PPD file for my HP LasetJet
> 4M, which is generated as HP-LaserJet_4M-ljet4-ppd.ppd, put it into my
> /usr/share/cups/model/ with all other PPD's, deleted my current printers
> and ran from the commandline (for JetDirect)

I download ppds from linuxprinting.org and never had any problems
with postscript laserjets (4M is postscript, isn't it?)
  Commandline printer installation and kdeprint installation allows to 
load a ppd from a file.

>
> /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer_name -E -v socket://printer_IP:9100 -m
> HP-LaserJet_4M-ljet4-ppd.ppd
>
> restarted cups and xinetd just in case
>
> /etc/init.d/cupsd restart
> /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

why xinetd ?
cups-lpd is needed only if your server needs to
accept old lpd request from remote hosts.
  If you can run cups on all your workstations I suggest to
disable lpd compatibility.
  LPD must die!  :-)
(quoting a cups developer)

>
> checked if the printer is up, enabled, and accepting jobs
>
> lpstat -p -d -o
>
> and sent it a job
>
> lp some_file.ps
>
> And it worked like a charm.  The only thing I wasn't able to understand is
> why it generated two empty sheets of paper before the job comes out, but
> hey - it's recyclable :))

I've readed that some accounting code in some old ppd
generates empty sheets.
Maybe you could try to use the generated ppd from ppd-o-matic at
linuxprinting.org.

Marko