omniprint-user — User discussion of the Omni driver

[Omniprint-user] Omni, SUSE8.2 and EPSON DFX-8000

[Torsten <tor...@ep...>]

Hi there,

I am still trying to use my EPSON DFX-8000 Printer with cups and omni. I am 
using SUSE Linux 8.2.

I installed the RPM version of OMNI (Omni-0.7.3-1.i386.rpm) and the package 
OmniEpson-cups-0.7.3-1.i386.rpm.

The testpages (either by yast or by kups) are printed fine. I set the LogMode 
to debug in cupds.conf so I could follow through the printing process. 
(/var/log/cups/error_log)

When I try to print from a different application e.g. OpenOffice, the job is 
processed the same way as with the testpages, but only a form feed occurs.

Can somebody help me ? Maybe a hint where to look ?

Torsten...

[Omniprint-user] problems with continuous paper

[Rafael A. de <raf...@ic...>]

I am trying to use continuous paper on my Epson LQ-570+ and I am having the following trouble:

The first page is printed correctly. On the second one, the page delimiter line that omni (cups?) adds is printed about 0.7 cm above the and of the line. In the following pages, the problem accumulates.

I have tried to change the paper margins with the alignmargin script from www.linuxprinting.org. The problem persisted. In fact, the refereed line didn't move.

Is someone else having problems with continuous paper?

Thanks for any help.

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Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Alejandro N. <ja...@in...>]

El viernes 25, a las 14:08, Mark Hamzy escribi=F3:
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Hello Alejandro,
>=20
> > ../DebugOutput.hpp:23: ostream: No such file or directory
>=20
> That error tells me that the c++ compiler that you use is not set u=
p
> correctly.  ostream is a standard C++ header file.
>=20
> For the simple file:
> #include <ostream>
>=20
> int main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>    return 0;
> }
>=20
> If it is called bob.cpp and you compile it with "gcc -o bob bob.cpp=
" it
> works.  However, if it is called bob.c and you compile it with "gcc=
 -o
> bob.c" it fails with the error "bob.c:1:19: ostream: No such file o=
r
> directory."
>=20
> Since omni files have a .cpp ending, this tells me that your compil=
er is
> defaulting to C mode instead of C++ mode.

:-( I don't know how to change that setting.  I have to investigate n=
ow. Besides, I have to say: thank you sir!


>=20
> > I attach the file "devices.mak"; Do I have to include the line "E=
pson
> there?
>=20
> No.  By default it compiles every device.  The file devices.list co=
ntrols
> which XML files are installed.
>=20
> I hope this helps.
>=20
> I am also worried about "checking for g_module_close in -lgmodule..=
. no" in
> the configure output.
>=20
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
> http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

--=20
Saludos,=20


Alejandro Noli
-    2003    -
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Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hello Alejandro,

> ../DebugOutput.hpp:23: ostream: No such file or directory

That error tells me that the c++ compiler that you use is not set up
correctly.  ostream is a standard C++ header file.

For the simple file:
#include <ostream>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
   return 0;
}

If it is called bob.cpp and you compile it with "gcc -o bob bob.cpp" it
works.  However, if it is called bob.c and you compile it with "gcc -o
bob.c" it fails with the error "bob.c:1:19: ostream: No such file or
directory."

Since omni files have a .cpp ending, this tells me that your compiler is
defaulting to C mode instead of C++ mode.

> I attach the file "devices.mak"; Do I have to include the line "Epson
there?

No.  By default it compiles every device.  The file devices.list controls
which XML files are installed.

I hope this helps.

I am also worried about "checking for g_module_close in -lgmodule... no" in
the configure output.


Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

Re: [Omniprint-user] omni building problems (for rpm supportless distros)

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Ilic,

I realize that the documentation is always out of date because new packages
are being released.  I will try to update it.
If I get time I will try to download and install the latest slackware and
see what happens.

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Alejandro N. <ja...@in...>]

By now, I'm working on Debian GNU/Linux.  I'm installing Omni under /=
usr/src/Omni/

Take a look to "compiling.txt" that is the result of -> ./setupOmni >=
 compiling.txt

=2E. and these are the messages that -I think- are not included in th=
at file. :-)

nulinux:/usr/src/Omni# ./setupOmni > compiling.txt
autoheader2.50: `config.h.in' is unchanged
autoreconf2.50: `aclocal.m4' is updated
autoheader2.50: `config.h.in' is unchanged
configure: WARNING: Please install the gtkmm development package to b=
uild the JobDialog.
configure: WARNING: Please install the sigc development package to bu=
ild the JobDialog.
In file included from CopyOmniDeviceBIs.cpp:19:
=2E./DebugOutput.hpp:23: ostream: No such file or directory
CopyOmniDeviceBIs.cpp:27: ostream: No such file or directory
make: *** [CopyOmniDeviceBIs.o] Error 1
autoheader2.50: `config.h.in' is unchanged
In file included from DebugOutput.cpp:23:
DebugOutput.hpp:23: ostream: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [DebugOutput.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error



I attach the file "devices.mak"; Do I have to include the line "Epson=
 there?


Sorry, if this is too much :-)

KR


El jueves 24, a las 16:04, Mark Hamzy escribi=F3:
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Alejandro,
>=20
> You also need to install libtool from gnu.org.
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
> http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

--=20
Saludos,=20


Alejandro Noli
-    2003    -
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Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Alejandro,

You also need to install libtool from gnu.org.

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Alejandro N. <ja...@in...>]

El jueves 24, a las 09:14, Mark Hamzy escribi=F3:
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Alejandro,
>=20
> Omni needs autotools to build.  Goto ftp.gnu.org and download, buil=
d, and
> install the latest autoconf and automake.
>=20
I did this from the cd's of my OS.  Now it's ok.  But still can't bui=
ld it, and below is the result of doing ./setupOmni.


> Hope this helps,
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
> http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

--=20
Saludos,=20


Alejandro Noli
-    2003    -
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Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Alejandro,

Omni needs autotools to build.  Goto ftp.gnu.org and download, build, and
install the latest autoconf and automake.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

Re: [Omniprint-user] laking CUPS/Makefile

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hi Rafeal,

You must have just downloaded the current CVS snapshot. :)
I have made the omni driver dependant upon the soon to be released cups
1.1.19.
We do this because, with the new XML support, we do not generate valid PPD
files.  I have now fixed this by putting omni specific
PPD keys in the PPD file.  However, to extract this data, we need the new
ppdFindAttr () call.
The configure script should have noticed that this API was missing on your
system so it would not have built the optional CUPS support.

If you download and install cups-1.1.19rc2-source.tar.bz2 then it should
work again.

Hope this helps.

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Alejandro N. <ja...@in...>]

Mark:

there was a trouble installing ./setupOmni

It asked me for something like "aclocal" that it's not installed in m=
y system, at the begining of the process, and it stopped. =20



El martes 22, a las 16:31, Mark Hamzy escribi=F3:
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Hello Alejandro,
>=20
> The latest version of CVS contains some fixes.  Use the ./installOm=
ni
> script.  Then restart the cups daemon and install a new printer.  S=
elect
> the omni + CUPS version for your printer.
>=20
> Hope this helps,
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
> http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/
>=20
>=20
>=20
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Alejandro Noli
-    2003    -
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[Omniprint-user] laking CUPS/Makefile

[Rafael A. de <raf...@ic...>]

After running ./setupOmni of the CVS version I noticed that CUPS/Makefile was missing. Way isn't it being generated?

[Omniprint-user] omni building problems (for rpm supportless distros)

[Darko I. <da...@cu...>]

I`ve allready asked a question connected with my problem, but the recived 
answer didn`t help me :( 

Just to remind you, I can`t build omni on my slackware linux distribution. 
With different versions of omni, i receved different error messages during 
building process, but I have a general conclusion for that.
I think dependences are problem. In doc/Building file are listed packages that 
are needed by omni, but there are problems. At first, doc/Building isn`t 
updated for a long time, so, recomended verions of software (and recomended 
url-s) aren`t valid. The other problem are packages that are avaible only in 
rpm format (or I didn`t search the rigth places). For example, libxml-devel 
isn`t avaible in tarball like libxml is (i have looked at ftp.xmlsoft.org and 
also at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources), gtkmm-devel also. On 
slackware, there are two wayes to install rpm packages. I have tried both, 
and I didn`t get positive results. rpm program for slackware faild 
dependences check (dependences were OK but it searched at the wrong place) 
and rpm2tgz gave me the packages that I`ve smoothly installed (that was 
expected since slackware`s pkgtool don`t check dependences) but it seems that 
it put files at the wrong place since .setupOmni (obviously) couldn`t find 
them. 

If anyone of you have exepieces in i building omni on slackware linux (or some 
similar distribution) or just have an idea what I am supposed to do, I`ll be 
very very thankful if he would share that with me. I know it is possible, 
since i have successfully buided it 7-8 months ago on a similar system (but I 
dodn`t remember how)...

Thankfuly
Ilic Darko

Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Alejandro N. <ja...@in...>]

The first mistake was to download the OmniEpsonVendor stuff.  Now I'm=
 trying to download the other tar.gz file, just Omni0.9.0, I think.

Let me see what happens now.

I've been trying CVS way, but still learning to use it.

Thank you.

El martes 22, a las 16:31, Mark Hamzy escribi=F3:
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Hello Alejandro,
>=20
> The latest version of CVS contains some fixes.  Use the ./installOm=
ni
> script.  Then restart the cups daemon and install a new printer.  S=
elect
> the omni + CUPS version for your printer.
>=20
> Hope this helps,
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
> http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/
>=20
>=20
>=20
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Saludos,=20


Alejandro Noli
-    2003    -
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[Omniprint-user] IBM Network Printers

[Rick D. <den...@ct...>]

I've got two IBM Network Printers attached to my Linux system. One is a
NP17, the other is a NP12. Both have native Postscript Support.

I can get to these with either the Omni Driver or as raw PS printers.

If I use the Omni driver, the output is shifted down and to the right. 
How do I fix this.

Neither driver seems to let me use options like tray selection or the
duplex unit on the NP 17.  Should I be able to do this? I do have the
PPDs for both printers from a Windows system.

Re: [Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hello Alejandro,

The latest version of CVS contains some fixes.  Use the ./installOmni
script.  Then restart the cups daemon and install a new printer.  Select
the omni + CUPS version for your printer.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

Re: [Omniprint-user] Omni building problem

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hello Ilic,

configure.ac references gtk-config which is part of gtk+-devel.  It asks
gtk-config for the cflags and the libraries that it needs to link with.  I
haven't tried it without gtk+-devel to see if it still compiles and works.

-lXext is a reference to libXext.so which is a part of the XFree86
development package on Red Hat.  So please install that package and tell me
if it works.

Thanks,

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

[Omniprint-user] Omni building problem

[Darko I. <da...@cu...>]

I`ve expirienced some problems during building process of omni driver. I have 
done everything that is written in doc/Building file (exept installing 
gtkmm-devel which is not nececarry, isn`t it?), but I still can`t build omni. 

./makeOmni reports error:

.......
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Tester] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/gs/Omni/JobDialog'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/gs/Omni'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Error: Build Break!


Any ideas?

Thankfully 
Ilic Darko

[Omniprint-user] Epson LX-810

[Alejandro N. <ja...@in...>]

For an Epson LX-810, I've downloaded the Epson-LX-810-omni.ppd and installed under /usr/share/cups/model/Epson/; I have also selected with CUPS, and tryed to install it but nothing happens.

It works with other drivers, for example, foomatic epson(mid) or something, but cannot make it print with the common "draft" (and economic) option.

Any suggestion??


-- 
Saludos, 


Alejandro Noli
-    2003    -
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Re: [Omniprint-user] How can I use foomatic with Omni 0.9.0?

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hi James,

As far as the foomatic printer xml files not being installed.  That is a
good question.  Perhaps Till could tell us if we need
to install them or not.  It sounds like we should.

> And it seems that the foomatic files are useless if the CUPS ppds are
> used, is it correct?

Well, redhat-config-printer uses the foomatic files so they are not
useless.

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/

[Omniprint-user] Why printer/*.xml is not included into Omni-foomatic-*.rpm?

[James Su <su...@tu...>]

Hi,
I noticed that if I install foomatic data with make localInstall in
Foomatic dir, the printer/* is not installed. Could you please tell me why?

Regards
James Su

[Omniprint-user] How can I use foomatic with Omni 0.9.0?

[James Su <su...@tu...>]

Hi,
I had successfully generated foomatic db source, but when I tried to use
foomatic-compiledb errors occurred:

Generating Foomatic PPD files ...

Storing files in directory /var/src/rpm/BUILD/Omni.new/Foomatic/ppd.
...printer IBM-5586-H02, driver omni-xml
...printer Generic-9-pin_136_Col, driver omni-xml
...printer Kyocera-FS-850A_FS-850, driver omni-xml
...printer Kyocera-FS-6900, driver omni-xml
...printer Generic-48_pin, driver omni-xml
...printer Star-ZA-200_Multi-Font, driver omni-xml
...printer 284105, driver omni-xml
Cannot read file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/284105.xml!Could
not run "foomatic-combo-xml"/"foomatic-perl-data"! at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Foomatic/DB.pm line 486, <STDIN> line 7.

I noticed that many printers in omni-xml.xml have number name, and this
is caused by foo2omni file.
Could you please tell me how can I solve this problem?

And it seems that the foomatic files are useless if the CUPS ppds are
used, is it correct?

Regards
James Su

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Re: [Omniprint-user] strange problem with CUPS

[Rafael A. de <raf...@ic...>]

> Mark Hamzy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Mike,
> > 
> > Do you know what is causing this error?
> > Google searches seem to indicate that it might be because the cups driver
> > in ghostscript is not installed.  But Rafael seems to be using it.
> > ...
> 
> Well, without knowing how your current filter is interfaced to
> CUPS, I can only guess that the ghostscript-cups package (which has
> the pstoraster script and pstoraster.convs files that CUPS is looking
> for) is not installed...
> 
I updated omni and made the path in the ppds absolute (/usr/share/Omni/something.xml). Now it is working...

I am not sure what the problem was :(