Hi All
Just trying to publicise the release of this Warpin Archive and get some feedback as to how installation went, what could be improved etc.
This Warpin Archive will, hopefully, make it much easier for people to get their "1st time CUPS install" right on the 1st attempt.
As to why we need CUPS: Support for *recent/current* printers. However, people should check that their printer is on the supported printers list - see
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort - or be able to provide a PPD file for an unsupported printer.
Extracts from the readme:-
CUPS for eCS
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This Warpin package includes all current software packages
required to achieve printing using CUPS for eCS.
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Installation Instructions
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Make sure printer is connected and Powered on.
Select the appropriate packages for installation:
- both cups and ghostscript packages are required
- gutenprint package is required to support most printers
- Splix package is required to support some Samsung and Xerox printers
NOTE: cups requires installation to the root of a drive and needs
ghostscript and gutenprint installed to the root of the same drive
If you already have ghostscript installed then set the cups install
drive to the drive with ghostscript installed
Splix installs into the cups directory tree
- ecups-driver package is required in order to create an OS/2 Desktop
Printer Object to work with CUPS
NOTE: if you run OpenOffice for Windows 115 using ar5os2.exe select
the gutenprt driver package instead of the ecups-driver package in
order to print from OO115 in Colour.
ecups-driver and gutenprt installs create their own directories under
\os2\dll
- cupsportdriver package is required to link the OS/2 Printer created with
either ecups-driver or gutenprt to the CUPS printing system and installs
the files \os2\dll\cups.pdr and \tcpip\bin\cupslpr.exe
- libc-0.6.3-csd3 package contains the libc06?.dll support files; Install
if your system does not have these. The files are installed to \ecs\dll
- gcc342 package contains gcc342.dll, a support file required by Splix;
Install only if installing Splix package.
The files are installed to \ecs\dll
- Documentation, a readme and How To. These files are installed to
\ecs\book\eCUPS.INF and \ecs\DOC\CUPS\ecups_readme.txt (this file)
Install the packages.
A program object called CUPS Daemon ( \cups\sbin\cupsd.exe ) will be placed in the
Startup folder and started Detached - check Process List to ensure it is running.
The "How To" will be displayed in the Help Viewer
The CUPS web based administration interface will be started in a browser window
You then need to follow the instructions in the above "How To" carefully in order
to create and test a CUPS printer then create and test an OS/2 (CUPS) printer
For those people wanting to give this a try the archive is available from
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPortRegards
Pete
Regards
Pete