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Title: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on April 30, 2013, 06:13:48 AM

Does any one had faced Problems with printing using Tinycore over Parallel port.
I installed my printer using: lpadmin -p AMTECH -R -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m amt_tif.ppd
And then made the printer system default using: lpadmin -d AMTECH

When i send a file to print or even a testprint it gives no output although status given is Ready to print

No errors are logged in the error_log file of cups. Please help if any one had come out through this situation using 3.0.21-tinycore.....

Thanks in advance......

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on April 30, 2013, 08:01:19 AM

Hi

sorry your first post is an error. Sorry if my next bit is telling a programmer how to suck eggs.

Juanito is current maintainer of CUPS but I am attempting to upgrade it......currently a fail.

When you get a chance, as its not clear to me, can you edit with sudo or root powers the
/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

change to debug, then you need to restart the daemon with

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sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/cups restart

OR   --- If you can use a web browser then create a root password with

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sudo passwdopen web browser to http://localhost:631/admin
click edit the file, change to debug, when you attempt to save, it must bring up the root passwd screen
--if not seen, backtrack and click on ADD printer and that should bring up the passwd dialog box

Then which ever way you used, can you upload all debug log somewhere and post a link to it.
I am not sure if your post count allows you to post a link tho.
If not pm me the link and I can broadcast it, or pm Juanito the link. but I will hang around an hour or so

good luck

EDIT

do you have the module loaded?

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sudo modprobe parport


Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 02:31:32 AM

Hi,

First of all Thanks for ur reply

I have the parport module loaded
lsmod gives me the following result:
parport_pc             24576  1
parport                24576  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 03:05:58 AM

Hi ,

Go to the link and click sign in
Enter username: shyamchaturvedi99@yahoo.in
Password: Shyam24689

Then got to Cups error log folder. You can then have a look over the error log which is generated after changing cups.confd to debug

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Cups%20Error%20log/error_log?w=AACGfK1ta87sFTk4GmmTh6jxdt2Ufk3FTvaAGQfusGKW5w (https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Cups%20Error%20log/error_log?w=AACGfK1ta87sFTk4GmmTh6jxdt2Ufk3FTvaAGQfusGKW5w)

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Juanito on May 02, 2013, 04:00:53 AM

From the error log:

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I [01/May/2013:18:49:53 +0000] [Job 2] Started backend /usr/local/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 8426)
...
I [01/May/2013:18:49:53 +0000] [Job 2] Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...
D [01/May/2013:18:49:53 +0000] [Job 2] Set job-printer-state-message to "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...", current level=INFO
...
I [01/May/2013:18:49:54 +0000] [Job 2] Printing page 1, 96% complete...
D [01/May/2013:18:49:54 +0000] [Job 2] Set job-printer-state-message to "Printing page 1, 96% complete...", current level=INFO
D [01/May/2013:18:49:54 +0000] Discarding unused job-progress event...
D [01/May/2013:18:49:54 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
I [01/May/2013:18:49:54 +0000] [Job 2] Rendering completed
D [01/May/2013:18:49:54 +0000] [Job 2] Set job-printer-state-message to "Rendering completed", current level=INFO
...
D [01/May/2013:19:10:23 +0000] [CGI] python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
...
D [01/May/2013:19:10:23 +0000] [CGI] hp: error while loading shared libraries: libhpmud.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It looks like cups is trying to use the parallel backend, but does not find a parallel printer - if you search the forums on "cups" and "parallel" you'll find a post where Roberts prints to a parallel printer without using cups - you could try this to see if your machine actually recognises that a parallel printer is connected to it.

What does "ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/backend/parallel" give?

Further down the error log, it looks like cups believes it has printed 96% of a document and then completed it - I take it that nothing was printed?

What printer are you using? The errors about missing libpython and libhpmud make me think that the ppd file expects hplip to be installed?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 05:11:14 AM

"ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/backend/parallel" gives the following output
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb779a000)
        libcups.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libcups.so.2 (0xb7754000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7730000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb770d000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb76de000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb75d2000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb75c1000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb779b000)

I'm using AMTECH 120 Thermal printer ,I already have hplip installed so I tried adding a symbolic link
 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libhpmud.so.0  /usr/lib/libhpmud.so.0 & ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
and then restarted cups the error regarding shared object library disappeared but still no Prinitng.

Can you please provide me the link about printing to a parallel printer without using cups...?

Can you please suggest if it is the problem with tinycore Kernel not detecting parallel port or it might be a system issue? I'm using 3.0.21-tinycore

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Juanito on May 02, 2013, 05:26:32 AM

Quote from: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 05:11:14 AM

"ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/backend/parallel" gives the following output
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb779a000)
...

That looks OK

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I'm using AMTECH 120 Thermal printer ,I already have hplip installed so I tried adding a symbolic link
 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libhpmud.so.0  /usr/lib/libhpmud.so.0 & ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
and then restarted cups the error regarding shared object library disappeared but still no Prinitng.

I doubt that an Amtech printer would require hplip, which I thought was for HP printers only. Maybe you have the wrong ppd for your printer and it is that ppd that is looking for hplip.

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Can you please provide me the link about printing to a parallel printer without using cups...?

From http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,3373.msg17639.html#msg17639:

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Because printing is not part of the base system but instead is supported by extensions.
Yes, I modprobe lp in my /opt/bootlocal.sh on the one computer that I have that still has a parallel port.

FYI In the base is a tiny script that I use for cupsless, spoolerless, direct printing of text files, i.e,. my programs and scripts, it might be useful to some

text2lp0

Of course, it only prints plain text directly to lp0

Maybe you could try using text2lp0 to print a text file to your printer? This would help identify the problem area.

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 06:03:02 AM

text2lp0 gave me the following output

/usr/bin/text2lp0: line 4: can't create /dev/lp0: Device or resource busy
/usr/bin/text2lp0: line 5: can't create /dev/lp0: Device or resource busy

Is it a real problem? even i cancelled all the print jobs sent through cups and lpr command but still it says device or resource busy....

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Juanito on May 02, 2013, 07:14:50 AM

It would be a good idea to reboot your machine and try the same thing without cups or any of it's deps or hplip loaded

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 07:58:46 AM

After system restart it gave no error but then tooo no print

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Juanito on May 02, 2013, 08:12:46 AM

I assume the "lp" module is loaded, what does "ls -l /dev/lp0" give?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 08:33:40 AM

Again i tried by rebooting and did modprobe lp & modprobe parport_pc after reboot then tried text2lp0...

but the command prompt appeared to get hanged without giving the next command cursor

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 08:35:28 AM

ls -l /dev/lp0 gave the following output
crw-rw---- 1 root staff   6, 0 May  2 17:56 /dev/lp0

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 02, 2013, 08:59:33 AM

Hi

Having read the link kindly supplied by Juanito I see I have mislead you on your kernel module the correct command is as follows

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tc@box:~$ sudo modprobe lp
(to check)
lsmod | grep lp
lp                     12288  0
parport                24576  1 lp
usblp                  16384  0

ls -l /dev/lp0
(but I have no such beast)

Then retry your printer stuff

good luck

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 11:32:29 AM

lsmod | grep lp gives me the following output
lp            12288   0
parport    24576  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 11:48:43 AM

one interesting fact which i noticed between tinycore os and ther os i which printer is working...

the output of ls -l /dev/lp0 in tiny core is
crw-rw----   1  root    staff     6,   0 May   2  21:00  /dev/lp0

Whereas in other OS
crw-rw----   1  root    lp     6,   0 May   2  21:00  /dev/lp0

Does staff/lp  makes any difference while accessing the port...

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 12:04:00 PM

Hi Shyam24689

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but the command prompt appeared to get hanged without giving the next command cursor

That sounds like the printer is not acknowledging that it received data. Power the printer down and back up and make
sure the the online light is lit. Then execute:

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echo -ne \\f > /dev/lp0and see if you get a form feed.

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 12:14:19 PM

Hi Shyam24689

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Does staff/lp  makes any difference while accessing the port...

Staff is the group that lp0 belongs to. As user tc, you also belong to that group and have permission to access it.
By any chance, do you have more than one parallel port?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 12:18:35 PM

Yesss i received a form feed.... :) but why is it not accepting text file through text2lp0

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 12:23:58 PM

Hi Shyam24689
If you enter:

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text2lp0 .xsessiondoes it print anything?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 12:35:08 PM

No i dont have any other parallel port.....

text2lp0 .xsession din't worked it hangs the command line

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 12:40:38 PM

Hi Shyam24689
OK, how about:

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cat .xsession > /dev/lp0
echo -ne \\f > /dev/lp0

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 02:44:02 PM

It hangs... even for cat .xsession > /dev/lp0

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 02, 2013, 08:11:11 PM

Hi

If you like to try something a bit wilder?

load cups,  gutenprint and ghostscript......you may have to download these monsters first

create root passwd as per info file  $sudo passwd

http://localhost:631/admin  <<--- go to this page in web browser and click on add printers to see root login box

input root and your new passwd......its saved for this session only so if it does not work....you have no persistence for cups

after a short pause.....it may offer some printer makers

choose Epson 24 pin.......click add printer and then save the defaults

here is a peek of the PPD  in a code box for display purposes only......your will differ as I am testing 1.6.2 vesion

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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%%%% PPD file for 24-Pin Series with CUPS.
*%%%% Created by the CUPS PPD Compiler CUPS v1.6.2.
*% Copyright 2007-2012 by Apple Inc.
*% Copyright 1997-2007 by Easy Software Products.
*%
*% These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the
*% property of Apple Inc. and are protected by Federal copyright
*% law.  Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file "LICENSE.txt"
*% which should have been included with this file.  If this file is
*% file is missing or damaged, see the license at "http://www.cups.org/".
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.5"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName: "epson24.ppd"
*Product: "(24-Pin Series)"
*Manufacturer: "Epson"
*ModelName: "Epson 24-Pin Series"
*ShortNickName: "Epson 24-Pin Series"
*NickName: "Epson 24-Pin Series"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 0"
*LanguageLevel: "3"
*ColorDevice: False
*DefaultColorSpace: Gray
*FileSystem: False
*Throughput: "1"
*LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
*TTRasterizer: Type42
*% Driver-defined attributes...
*cupsVersion: 1.6
*cupsModelNumber: 1
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 50 rastertoepson"
*cupsLanguages: "en"
*OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize
*DefaultPageSize: A4
*PageSize Letter/US Letter: "<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize Legal/US Legal: "<</PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize A4/A4: "<</PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize FanFoldUS/Fanfold US: "<</PageSize[1071 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *PageSize
*OpenUI *PageRegion/Media Size: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageRegion
*DefaultPageRegion: A4
*PageRegion Letter/US Letter: "<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion Legal/US Legal: "<</PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion A4/A4: "<</PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion FanFoldUS/Fanfold US: "<</PageSize[1071 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *PageRegion
*DefaultImageableArea: A4
*ImageableArea Letter/US Letter: "18 18 594 774"
*ImageableArea Legal/US Legal: "18 18 594 990"
*ImageableArea A4/A4: "18 18 577 824"
*ImageableArea FanFoldUS/Fanfold US: "18 18 1053 774"
*DefaultPaperDimension: A4
*PaperDimension Letter/US Letter: "612 792"
*PaperDimension Legal/US Legal: "612 1008"
*PaperDimension A4/A4: "595 842"
*PaperDimension FanFoldUS/Fanfold US: "1071 792"
*MaxMediaWidth: "1080"
*MaxMediaHeight: "86400"
*HWMargins: 18 18 18 18
*CustomPageSize True: "pop pop pop <</PageSize[5 -2 roll]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*ParamCustomPageSize Width: 1 points 36 1080
*ParamCustomPageSize Height: 2 points 36 86400
*ParamCustomPageSize WidthOffset: 3 points 0 0
*ParamCustomPageSize HeightOffset: 4 points 0 0
*ParamCustomPageSize Orientation: 5 int 0 0
*OpenUI *Resolution/Resolution: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *Resolution
*DefaultResolution: 120x60dpi
*Resolution 60dpi/60dpi: "<</HWResolution[60 60]/cupsBitsPerColor 1/cupsRowCount 8/cupsRowFeed 0/cupsRowStep 0/cupsColorSpace 3>>setpagedevice"
*Resolution 120x60dpi/120x60dpi: "<</HWResolution[120 60]/cupsBitsPerColor 1/cupsRowCount 8/cupsRowFeed 0/cupsRowStep 0/cupsColorSpace 3>>setpagedevice"
*Resolution 180dpi/180dpi: "<</HWResolution[180 180]/cupsBitsPerColor 1/cupsRowCount 24/cupsRowFeed 0/cupsRowStep 0/cupsColorSpace 3>>setpagedevice"
*Resolution 360x180dpi/360x180dpi: "<</HWResolution[360 180]/cupsBitsPerColor 1/cupsRowCount 24/cupsRowFeed 0/cupsRowStep 0/cupsColorSpace 3>>setpagedevice"
*Resolution 360dpi/360dpi: "<</HWResolution[360 360]/cupsBitsPerColor 1/cupsRowCount 48/cupsRowFeed 0/cupsRowStep 0/cupsColorSpace 3>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *Resolution
*DefaultFont: Courier
*Font AvantGarde-Book: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font AvantGarde-BookOblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font AvantGarde-Demi: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font AvantGarde-DemiOblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Bookman-Demi: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Bookman-DemiItalic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Bookman-Light: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Bookman-LightItalic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Courier: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Courier-Bold: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Courier-BoldOblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Courier-Oblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-Bold: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-BoldOblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-Narrow: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-Narrow-Bold: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Helvetica-Oblique: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font NewCenturySchlbk-Bold: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font NewCenturySchlbk-Italic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font NewCenturySchlbk-Roman: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Palatino-Bold: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Palatino-BoldItalic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Palatino-Italic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Palatino-Roman: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Symbol: Special "(001.005)" Special ROM
*Font Times-Bold: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Times-BoldItalic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Times-Italic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font Times-Roman: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font ZapfChancery-MediumItalic: Standard "(1.05)" Standard ROM
*Font ZapfDingbats: Special "(001.005)" Special ROM
*% End of epson24.ppd, 05814 bytes.

Note I am in aussie land with locale set to A4 paper......if you have your locale set, paper default will differ

then see if it prints

if not go back to admin page and Edit the config to almost top line to
LogLevel debug

Next saving it......will restart cups

try to print and if no good.....post your debug file if you feel like it

###########

Much harder is to create your own PPD using ppdc  but I am not sure it was designed for 24 pins

good luck

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 09:36:28 PM

Still no luck  :(

Error_log

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D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /printers/Test HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] argv[0] = "/usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[0] = "CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[1] = "CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/local/share/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[2] = "CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/local/share/doc/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[3] = "CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[4] = "CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[5] = "CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/local/lib/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[6] = "CUPS_SERVERROOT=/usr/local/etc/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[7] = "CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[8] = "HOME=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[9] = "PATH=/usr/local/lib/cups/filter:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[10] = "SERVER_ADMIN=root@box"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[11] = "SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.8"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[12] = "TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[13] = "USER=root"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[14] = "CUPS_SERVER=/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[15] = "CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[16] = "IPP_PORT=631"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[17] = "AUTH_TYPE=Basic"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[18] = "LANG=en_US.UTF8"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[19] = "REDIRECT_STATUS=1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[20] = "GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[21] = "SERVER_NAME=localhost"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[22] = "SERVER_PORT=631"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[23] = "REMOTE_ADDR=127.0.0.1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[24] = "REMOTE_HOST=localhost"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[25] = "SCRIPT_NAME=/printers/Test"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[26] = "SCRIPT_FILENAME=/usr/local/share/doc/cups/printers/Test"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[27] = "PATH_INFO=/Test"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[28] = "REMOTE_USER=root"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[29] = "SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[30] = "HTTP_COOKIE=org.cups.sid=29e9320bd97f1e966030c83e05c7466a"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[31] = "HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[32] = "REQUEST_METHOD=GET"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] envp[33] = "QUERY_STRING="
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] Started /usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi (PID 10849)
I [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Started "/usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10849)
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSendCommand: 9 file=12
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: clients=1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: jobs=2
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: jobs-active=1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: printers=2
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: stringpool-string-count=507
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=7656
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=11064
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] org.cups.sid cookie is "29e9320bd97f1e966030c83e05c7466a"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost (Domain)
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 CUPS-Get-Default 1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] CUPS-Get-Default
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No default printer
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Returning IPP client-error-not-found for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from localhost
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] show_printer(http=0xb8593a58, printer="Test")
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Printer-Attributes 1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/Test
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Printer-Attributes (ipp://localhost/printers/Test) from localhost
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Script header: Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Script header:
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] Regular expression ".*Clean.*"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] [CGI] Regular expression ".*PrintSelfTestPage.*"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Jobs 1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost:631/printers/Test
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Jobs (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Test) from localhost
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 15
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] PID 10849 (/usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) exited with no errors.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /cups.css HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /images/left.gif HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /images/right.gif HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /images/unsel.gif HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /images/sel.gif HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:08 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /admin HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] argv[0] = "/usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[0] = "CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[1] = "CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/local/share/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[2] = "CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/local/share/doc/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[3] = "CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[4] = "CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[5] = "CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/local/lib/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[6] = "CUPS_SERVERROOT=/usr/local/etc/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[7] = "CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[8] = "HOME=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[9] = "PATH=/usr/local/lib/cups/filter:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[10] = "SERVER_ADMIN=root@box"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[11] = "SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.8"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[12] = "TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[13] = "USER=root"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[14] = "CUPS_SERVER=/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[15] = "CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[16] = "IPP_PORT=631"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[17] = "AUTH_TYPE=Basic"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[18] = "LANG=en_US.UTF8"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[19] = "REDIRECT_STATUS=1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[20] = "GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[21] = "SERVER_NAME=localhost"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[22] = "SERVER_PORT=631"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[23] = "REMOTE_ADDR=127.0.0.1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[24] = "REMOTE_HOST=localhost"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[25] = "SCRIPT_NAME=/admin"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[26] = "SCRIPT_FILENAME=/usr/local/share/doc/cups/admin"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[27] = "REMOTE_USER=root"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[28] = "SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[29] = "HTTP_COOKIE=org.cups.sid=29e9320bd97f1e966030c83e05c7466a"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[30] = "HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[31] = "HTTP_REFERER=http://localhost:631/printers/Test"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[32] = "REQUEST_METHOD=GET"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] envp[33] = "QUERY_STRING="
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] Started /usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi (PID 10850)
I [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] Started "/usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=10850)
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdSendCommand: 9 file=12
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] admin.cgi started...
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost (Domain)
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] http=0xb81f9948
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] org.cups.sid cookie is "29e9320bd97f1e966030c83e05c7466a"
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] No form data, showing main menu...
E [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] smbclient not found!
E [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] [CGI] rpcclient not found!
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Subscriptions 1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] Get-Subscriptions ipp://localhost/
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] Get-Subscriptions client-error-not-found: No subscriptions found.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] Returning IPP client-error-not-found for Get-Subscriptions (ipp://localhost/) from localhost
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] Script header: Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] Script header:
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 15
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:10 +0000] PID 10850 (/usr/local/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi) exited with no errors.
D [03/May/2013:07:02:13 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 9 GET /admin/log/error_log HTTP/1.1
D [03/May/2013:07:02:13 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files
D [03/May/2013:07:02:13 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using Basic
    [EDIT]:  Added code tags.  Rich

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 09:49:34 PM

text2lp0 requires no drivers... what could be the reason if it is not working?

Should i change the system and try to install in other PC

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 10:18:27 PM

Hi Shyam24689
You've verified that the printer responds to a line feed with:

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echo -ne \\f > /dev/lp0If you execute it twice, does it respond the second time?
If it does, try:

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cat - /dev/lp0then type some text, press enter, and Ctrl Z. Did it print what you typed?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 10:25:22 PM

Executing line feed twice or thrice responds every time..
But cat - /dev/lp0 "text"      Enter and ctrl Z gives no print...

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 10:44:09 PM

Hi Shyam24689
Maybe your printer wants a CR/LF sequence:

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cp .xsession testfile
unix2dos testfile
cat testfile > /dev/lp0

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 10:58:46 PM

It hanged... then ctrl Z sudo echo -ne \\f > /dev/lp0 gives device or resource busy

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 02, 2013, 11:10:00 PM

Hi Shyam24689
Is there a link to some documentation for your printer you could post?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 11:42:29 PM

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?action=post2;start=15;board=15 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?action=post2;start=15;board=15) but it doesn't contain driver

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 02, 2013, 11:43:31 PM

attached file is the driver

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 02, 2013, 11:50:08 PM

my apols, I forgot to mention that you need to click on the LPD radio button as your debug is claiming IPP address and thats not right for a parallel printer

(http://ompldr.org/vaWFzMQ/lpd.jpg)

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 03, 2013, 12:09:28 AM

what url to add at connection after selecting lpd

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 03, 2013, 12:17:54 AM

i gave the address lpd://192.168.0.80/queue and then test print it shows status Connecting to printer and hangs...

The attachment provided previously consist of amt_tif.ppd file please have a look

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 12:50:32 AM

sorry if its trivial but when I unpack the readme says read the web pages but they are zero byte

2) your rastertolabel.....pls don't use it. cups already has one. If I run

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strings rastertolabel

against yours, I see strings like....__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx, making me think someone compiled not against our 486 recommendation
---/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.3/include also found......but our structure differs from......GCC: (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3

short answer....try our rastertolabel

3) So its a label printer?  that other link is not working for me. We could look at making our own PPD based on your PPD but for the moment your other question

4) what address....I don't know as I don't own a parallel printer

try

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sudo lpinfo -v

192.168.0.80  looks like your ethernet address and that can't be right surely?

You may also wish to review
/usr/local/share/doc/cups/help/man-cups-lpd.html

also I just tried

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lpstat -v
device for EPSON_Stylus_TX100: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20TX100

You may be able to get something going using lpstat? try the web page for it?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 03, 2013, 01:03:11 AM

Googling for   AM Tech printers   returns kiosk and POS printers.

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 03, 2013, 01:06:49 AM

first i tried with rastertolabel which already exist but i dint helped....

I think the only way out.. is to make our own ppd but how?

I there any generic driver for parallel port printing which can used to print .ps file to any parallel port connected printer?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 03, 2013, 01:08:01 AM

AMtech is a kiosk Thermal printer

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 01:12:47 AM

yeah I wanted to avoid making a PPD as I have zero success and making one for an USB printer

before start process Juanito when his timezone comes up may wish to solve my misleading bit?

but I found this thru google with 12 hits on that page for parallel

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html

Quote

lpinfo -v ENTER
network socket
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct parallel:/dev/lp1
serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200
direct usb:/dev/usb/lp0
network smb

so maybe based on your result for /dev/lp0, you could try to input
parallel:/dev/lp0

Then look at running wine and installing the windows driver?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 01:24:58 AM

ahhh  just looking at your PPD

it was (MAY HAVE BEEN) generated using a gutenprint model 49 as per
usr/local/share/gutenprint/5.2/xml/escp2/model/model_49.xml

we could do it......I will try to reply tonite with a PPD for cups 1.4.8

In the meantime I will let Rich and Juanito give you better advice

Can you do me a favour, as I will generate a potential PPD.....I need to know what number your dimensions are in your PPD you uploaded

I am guessing but as you would know the effective printing area look at your PPD and tell me the number please
eg ImageableArea 11./Label - 72x72mm:......means you can print 72 mm across and the true size of it may be 79 mm not showing in specs

get it?

Measure your width.....go to size closest to it ......tell me the number please or your size what ever suits

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 03, 2013, 02:17:51 AM

Is it a problem because AMtech is a customized Thermal printer? What should i try at my side

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 02:23:18 AM

I just editted my last

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Shyam24689 on May 03, 2013, 02:53:40 AM

72 X 297mm

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: tinypoodle on May 03, 2013, 03:23:50 AM

Have you checked for possible parport options in your BIOS?

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 04:10:59 AM

Good one tinypoodle

In the mean time I have hit a brick wall....again

tce-load -i cups cups-dev

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ppdc -tvv label.drv
ppdc: Loading driver information file "label.drv"...
ppdc: Unable to find include file "<usr/local/include/cups/ppd.h>" on line 19 of label.drv!

work in progress is in code box, its a text file called label.drv

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// Include standard font and media definitions
#include <font.defs>
#include <media.defs>

// include label specs
#include <label.h>

// Specify that this driver uses the label driver
DriverType label

// Each filter provided by the driver...
Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertolabel

// List the fonts that are supported, in this case all standard fonts...
Font *

// try custom page size load cups-dev
#include <usr/local/include/cups/ppd.h>

ppd_file_t *ppd;

// try generate page size
/* Get a 72x297 millimeter custom page size */
ppd_size_t *size = ppdPageSize(ppd, "Custom.72x297mm");


// Manufacturer, model name, and version
Manufacturer "AMTECH"
ModelName "AMTECH 120"
Version 1.0

// PostScript printer attributes
Attribute ColorDevice" " False

originally I was using cups/ppd.h but that borked too

looks like I won't work it out tonite

some references for you

http://cups.org/documentation.php?VERSION=1.4

http://cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.7/api-ppd.html#PAGE_SIZES

Altho it says 1.7 I am hoping it applies to 1.4 series

http://cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.7/raster-driver.html

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 08:17:22 AM

did not get far but got past that last error to a new one using a better command
this is just the test, not the generation........I would use ppdc -d /tmp label.drv, once all errors are gone

but not having much luck

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ppdc -I /usr/local/lib/include/cups -tvvv label.drv
ppdc: Loading driver information file "label.drv"...
ppdc: Unknown token "#" seen on line 27 of /usr/local/share/cups/ppdc/ppd.h!
ppdc: Unknown token "ppd_file_t" seen on line 20 of label.drv!

suggest you revisit tinypoodle's suggestion or my previous link or use wine and the windows driver

giving up tonite

good luck

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 03, 2013, 09:08:01 PM

I elected to drop cups-dev, I am only a simple coder but believe it not bashing my head against the errors I was getting for ppd.h
so driver currently looks like this

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// Include necessary files...
#include <font.defs>
#include <media.defs>
#include <label.h>

// Common stuff for all drivers...
Attribute "cupsVersion" "" "1.4"
Attribute "FileSystem" "" "False"
Attribute "LandscapeOrientation" "" "Plus90"
Attribute "TTRasterizer" "" "Type42"

Copyright "Copyright 2007-2011 by Apple Inc."
Copyright "Copyright 1997-2007 by Easy Software Products."
Copyright ""
Copyright "These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the"
Copyright "property of Apple Inc. and are protected by Federal copyright"
Copyright "law.  Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file \"LICENSE.txt\""
Copyright "which should have been included with this file.  If this file is"
Copyright "file is missing or damaged, see the license at \"http://www.cups.org/\"."

// fonts
Font *

// for some reason as per sample give v again
Version "1.4"

// Manufacturer, model name, and version
Manufacturer "AMTECH"
ModelName "AMTECH 120"
Version 1.0

// Specify that this driver uses the label driver
DriverType label

// Each filter provided by the driver...
Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertolabel

// Do we have colour
ColorDevice false

// Supported resolutions
*Resolution k 1 0 0 0 "203dpi/203 DPI"

// throughput
Throughput 8

// Specify the name of the PPD file we want to generate...
PCFileName "amtech.ppd"

but its not working so I give up and hope with your programming skills etc you will have better luck

I redesigned it based on sample.drv from /usr/local/share/cups/drv with some input from your file such as your resolutions

I deliberately left out page dimensions etc, the cupstestppd should show up or you could view the file but I can't generate it.

So I am truly giving up, I can't help any further, if at all.

just to repeat my errors and maybe you can work it out

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ppdc -tvv label.drv  (supposed to say PASSED)  (but I deleted my old driver so can't check any more)

(if it passed, then)

ppdc -d /tmp label.drv

cupstestppd -vv /tmp/*.ppd

(if it passes all try it)


Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 04, 2013, 01:49:49 AM

Hi Shyam24689
In reply #15 you state that the printer works under another OS. Was this on the same machine, and was it with the
same printer cable? What print command did you use under that OS. Did you try running:

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lsmodunder the working OS to see which modules were loaded?
Does this PDF:
http://amtech-europe.de/fileadmin/amtech/img/ATP-80K.pdf
basically match the specs of your printer?
Page 26 of that PDF lists pin 14 as the error output from the printer. Pin 14 on a printer port is the Auto-Linefeed output, pin
15 is the printer error input.

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: Rich on May 04, 2013, 02:10:49 AM

Hi Shyam24689
You might also want to put together a small diagnostic program to examine the state of the status and control registers
when the printer is hung. This link should provide enough information to do that:
http://mockmoon-cybernetics.ch/computer/linux/programming/parport.html
I would suggest using the code listed under  Access via /dev/lpX  as a template.

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: gerald_clark on May 04, 2013, 06:18:39 AM

Barcode label printers often speak a special printer control language and will not print ascii text.

Title: Re: Tinycore Parallel port printing problem
Post by: aus9 on May 05, 2013, 07:19:27 PM

Not sure if OP is still attempting my way but

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what url to add at connection after selecting lpd

found http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html section Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Protocol

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port 515 and uses the lpd URI scheme:

lpd://ip-address-or-hostname/queue
lpd://username@ip-address-or-hostname/queue
lpd://ip-address-or-hostname/queue?option=value
lpd://username@ip-address-or-hostname/queue?option=value
lpd://ip-address-or-hostname/queue?option=value&option=value
lpd://username@ip-address-or-hostname/queue?option=value&option=value

if at reply 35 you are happy with that ip, I don't know, try changing queue to lpd://192.168.0.80:515

good luck