Topic: Printing from OS X Tiger

[MSmith]

I tried all kinds of ways of setting up a printer in OS X Tiger and, frustratingly, nothing would come out of the HP 4P connected to my SME 7.0 server.

Then I discovered by diligent Googling that I needed Gimp-Print:

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Installed that, went through localhost:631 on the OS X machine to set up the printer in the native CUPS interface, set it up as a SAMBA printer with URI

smb://username:password@ip_address/printername

and voila!

[riffai]

I am not having any luck trying to print to a CUPs server (on SME 7.1) from OS X Tiger 10.4.8 using Guttenprint (GIMP 5.0).

I tried many different methods to share or broadcast my Epson R200 (connected via USB)

In CUPS, i created the following

A. Printer set up on USB port (model is identified correctly).
A1. I can see the printer via AppleTalk & Samba
A2. Added AppleTalk printer: when i print, the file seems to go through, but on the server side, the CUPS job manager says that the job was cancelled.
A3. Added printer through Network Neighborhood, with same results.
A4. When i try to restart the jobs from the CUPS interface, i get 'client-error-not-possible'
A5. The document name of the file printed via Samba is listed as 'smbprn.00000001 Remote Downlevel Document error_txt'

B. Printer set up through Samba
B1. Printer only appears through AppleTalk with similar errors to A2.
B2. Cannot find printer via Windows Printing/Network Neighborhood
B3. In the CUPS manager I get a 'ghost item' with the following blank headings:
 
{printer_name}   {printer_make_and_model}
Description: {printer_info}
Location: {printer_location}
Printer State: stopped, rejecting jobs.

When i try to start or edit anything about this printer i get a blank page with 'The requested resource was not found on this server.'

C. Printer set up through IPP
C1. Connects through IPP://ip_address:631
C2. When i try to print it returns 'Network host is busy; will retry in 30 seconds...' indefinitely

I am not sure what to do at this point.

I actually had better luck BEFORE i installed CUPS. I decided to try CUPS because printing was painfully slow on both Mac's & PC's. The only catch was that after printing a file sent from a Mac, an extra page would be pulled into the printer, then the printer would pause. So to print another file, i had to manually feed the paper out.

What a nightmare, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time,
Riffai

[CharlieBrady]

I tried all kinds of ways of setting up a printer in OS X Tiger and, frustratingly, nothing would come out of the HP 4P connected to my SME 7.0 server.

Then I discovered by diligent Googling that I needed Gimp-Print:

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Please open a documentation bug in the bug tracker. If you'd really like to help, start working through bugs you find - documentation isn't being updated as rapidly as it should be.

Installed that, went through localhost:631 on the OS X machine to set up the printer in the native CUPS interface, set it up as a SAMBA printer with URI

smb://username:password@ip_address/printername

and voila!

You can also send jobs to the lpr interface, and won't need to supply username and password.

[riffai]

I am not having any luck trying to print to a CUPs server (on SME 7.1) from OS X Tiger 10.4.8 using Guttenprint (GIMP 5.0).

I am printing on the original LPR interface now. I connect to an Epson R200 connected to a SME 7.1 server through the Appletalk protocol.

It could have been perfect except that after the last page of a print job, the printer feeds a blank paper halfway and stops.  

I think Guttenprint (the latest version of GIMP for OS X) made a difference. Previously, using the version that came with Tiger, it was painfully slow in sending anything to my network printer.

Not ideal but it works. I will try to make a bug report about the blank page, if i can get over my newb fears of bugzilla!!

Cheers!!

[CharlieBrady]

I am not having any luck trying to print to a CUPs server (on SME 7.1) from OS X Tiger 10.4.8 using Guttenprint (GIMP 5.0).

I am sure that you do not need to install CUPs on SME. My partner has a Mac, and she prints happily via lpr using the standard SME print system, using lpr as the transport.

[riffai]

I am sure that you do not need to install CUPs on SME. My partner has a Mac, and she prints happily via lpr using the standard SME print system, using lpr as the transport.

Does she get the half-page-loaded-post-print issue? It's very annoying.

[CharlieBrady]

Does she get the half-page-loaded-post-print issue?

I doubt that she'd be printing happily if she did

[riffai]

Right :)

What then do you think would be the cause of this? The half-load paper problem occurs with GIMP 5.0 & 4.3 (the one shipped with OS X), on a fresh/unmodified install of SME.

[CharlieBrady]

What then do you think would be the cause of this?

I'd guess it would be printer specific, and would be related to GIMP. All SME does is transfer data from the client to the printer. If the printer doesn't print correctly, it's usually because the wrong data was sent to it.

[riffai]

I see, OK so its not most likely not SME. Better start looking for answers elsewhere then. I will also try it out on another printer.

Cheers!!