Printer on parallel port not working

[yogi_al]

Hi Juanito,

I have TC 4.7.7 and I checked the contents of both cups.tcz and cups-filters.tcz both of them dont have the file pcl.h

[Juanito]

Ah - sorry, I hadn't noticed that was mentioned in the first post, but the file is indeed present in the cups-filters extension in tc-6.x

[yogi_al]

Thanks Juanito, that got me going.

Now Iam trying to print from a windows XP machine by connecting to this printer on TC. Add printer doesn't recognize the printer. Although I have configured the cups printer to be shared on the network. From windows Iam able to ping the device to which my printer is connected.
Has it got something to do with group permissions?

[yogi_al]

I read Juanito's post, for printing from Windows client to Linux printers http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,818.msg4872.html#msg4872

Installed and configured samba according to the post. Now on windows client I can see the printer name, on clicking it, it downloads the printer driver but after that it says Windows cant connect to Printer.

[Juanito]

It's been a long time, but I seem to recall that the following drivers were required on the cups server so that windows machines can print to the server:

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/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/cups6.inf
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/cups6.ini
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/cups6.ppd
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/cupsps6.dll
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/cupsui6.dll
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf
/usr/local/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll
These files are present in the tc-3.x cups extension and, I suppose, could be copied for use in more recent cups extensions.

There is another option that seems to work better, see:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,9633.msg53740.html#msg53740

[yogi_al]

Hi Juanito,

I added the drivers on the cups server, on one windows machine when I tried to do an Add Printer it allowed me to select drivers for the printer and the printer was added, and I was able to print as well . But on another windows machine, it didn't pop-up the dialog for selecting the drivers but instead gave me a "Printer driver setup error. Operation could not be completed". Any idea what this could be?

On the 2nd option that you mentioned, is that for printing from an iPhone device only ? Or would it work for windows to linux kinda scenario as well?

[Juanito]

The second option should work on windows as well - see the second post in the thread.

Also, perhaps depending on the version of windows, if the cups uri is:
ipp://ldslnx01/printers/HPLJ4000-PS

The windows uri in the "add printer wizard" should be:
http://ldslnx01:631/printers/HPLJ4000-PS