Re: [Thinstation-general] Printing to a network printer

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Ahh OK this is very interesting for 2 reasons:

1.) I didn't know that it's possible to add commands within the configuration files.
2.) When using lpadmin, did you see the printer in firefoxes print dialogue? I was never able to see any printer there, I thought firefox is not linked against cups ...

Am 06.02.2014 um 20:34 schrieb John Bulcher <jbu...@st...>:

> I got it to work using lpadmin in one of the boot-time confs. I just added the following line at the end of thinstation.conf.network:
> 
> lpadmin -p hplj -v socket://<printer IP> -m drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_p2035n-pcl3.ppd -L "IT office" -E
> 
>  Is it OK to use boot-time scripts like this, or is there a better way to run a script (e.g. *after* everything has finished starting up)?
> 
> John Bulcher
> Computer Programmer
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> 1891 Goodyear Ave, Suite 618
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> 
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 AM, John Bulcher <jbu...@st...> wrote:
> I'll write the documentation if you guys can help me get a working process!
> 
> Are there any files besides those in /etc/cups/ that you need? Your suggestion didn't work for me. Here are the steps I took:
> 	• Copy /etc/cups/ directory and files to ~/cups.old
> 	• Install working printer via the cups interface on the thinstation client
> 	• Diff ~/cups.old with /etc/cups (the only difference was a file called "printers.conf"
> 	• Reboot the thinstation client (clean slate)
> 	• Add "printers.conf" back into /etc/cups/
> At this point I checked to see if the printer was available to firefox. It wasn't, so I tried "/etc/init.d/cups restart" and "/etc/init.d/cups stop && /etc/init.d/cups start". No dice; the printer still doesn't show up in firefox.
> 
> John Bulcher
> Computer Programmer
> EBS Executive Business Services, LLC
> 1891 Goodyear Ave, Suite 618
> Ventura, CA  93003
> 866-767-3238 x308
> 
> the NALA (thenala.com)
> Starkart (starkart.net)
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Don Cupp <don...@ya...> wrote:
> Coolio. Someone else was asking about the wiki, and if they could put stuff in it. I would like to see this printer trick in there if anyone wants to write it up.
> 
> https://github.com/Thinstation/thinstation/wiki
> 
> 
> On Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:45 AM, Christoph Litauer <li...@un...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do it just that way. I use cups, start my thinstation and configure the printer using http://localhost:631. Then I create a new package from /etc/cups (.pkg in fact is a .tar.gz-Archive). This package is dynamically loaded while starting my thinstations.
> 
> Am 06.02.2014 um 15:26 schrieb Michael K <ts....@gm...>:
> 
> > Sorry for the confusion.
> > I use cups and system-config-printer, but I don't think s-c-p will add a network printer automatically on startup (it will for USB connected printers). It does often show network printers when you access the user interface (it sees my Epson).
> > You mentioned not being able to see the printer from CUPS, so I just wanted to explain why. If you can configure CUPS manually, you can save the configuration file(s) into a custom package and rebuild it into your image so it always starts back up. The CUPS configuration is complicated enough that I haven't ever tried mimicking the lprng initialization.
> > It's also possible that you just need to figure out the magic option to configure your printer for lprng.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:06 PM, John Bulcher <jbu...@st...> wrote:
> > What do you use in it's place, Michael? I only have one requirement: get the thinstations to boot with a network printer ready to print. I even have a linux server with a samba share that can serve the printer to the thinclients, if I need to. I just need to get the thin clients to print.
> > 
> > John Bulcher
> > Computer Programmer
> > EBS Executive Business Services, LLC
> > 1891 Goodyear Ave, Suite 618
> > Ventura, CA  93003
> > 866-767-3238 x308
> > 
> > the NALA (thenala.com)
> > Starkart (starkart.net)
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Michael K <ts....@gm...> wrote:
> > cups won't autodetect a network printer. Either use the cups web interface (not sure it's there) or add system-config-printer to manually add it.
> > Unfortunately, I stopped using LPR a long time ago.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:08 PM, John Bulcher <jbu...@st...> wrote:
> > I enabled package hpijs, and none of the printers showed up in firefox.
> > 
> > I also noticed the cups package. After hpijs didn't work, I tried adding the cups package, which did not change anything.
> > 
> > Printing via lp still tabs in newlines.
> > 
> > John Bulcher
> > Computer Programmer
> > EBS Executive Business Services, LLC
> > 1891 Goodyear Ave, Suite 618
> > Ventura, CA  93003
> > 866-767-3238 x308
> > 
> > the NALA (thenala.com)
> > Starkart (starkart.net)
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Don Cupp <don...@ya...> wrote:
> > Try including
> > 
> > package hpijs
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 3:05 PM, John Bulcher <jbu...@st...> wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to print to a network printer, and I'm having a good deal of trouble. My knowledge of printing in linux involves using the gui. I've tried the following configurations:
> > 
> > # build.conf
> > - package lprng
> > - package xfwm4
> > 
> > (the following two configuration options are consistent across all tries)
> > SESSION_0_AUTOSTART=on
> > SESSION_0_TYPE=xfwm4
> > 
> > # thinstation.conf.network (HP JetDirect)
> > PRINTER_0_NAME=networkprinter
> > PRINTER_0_DEVICE=<printer IP>%9100
> > PRINTER_0_TYPE=N
> > 
> > *or*
> > 
> > # thinstation.conf.network (LPR :515)
> > PRINTER_0_NAME=networkprinter
> > PRINTER_0_DEVICE=<randomstring>@<printer IP>
> > PRINTER_0_TYPE=N
> > 
> > After setting up a print server, I've also tried the following:
> > 
> > PRINTER_0_NAME=networkprinter
> > PRINTER_0_DEVICE=<print server IP>%9100
> > PRINTER_0_TYPE=N
> > 
> > *or*
> > 
> > PRINTER_0_NAME=networkprinter
> > PRINTER_0_DEVICE=<randomstring>@<print server IP>
> > PRINTER_0_TYPE=N
> > 
> > In no case did a printer show up in firefox. However, I did discover that I could print from the command line in at least a few cases using the command `lpr`, but the printer output would indent for each new line until all text was off the page.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong, or is there a something I can do to make printing work?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > John Bulcher
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