Printing using Raspberry Pi  ???

To verify your claims I logged into my raspberry pi, I typed "apt-get install cups-bsd" (because I like the bsd-interface for printing), and it pulled in a shitload of packages.

Next I typed "lpr spiro2.ps" and I got a pleasing pattern out of my printer.

spiro2.ps contains the following data:

%!PS-Adobe-1.0

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842

/cshow { dup stringwidth pop 2 div 0 exch sub 0 rmoveto show } def

(Times-Roman) findfont 7 scalefont setfont

72 25.4 div dup scale

0.1 setlinewidth

/cx 105 def

/cy 150 def

/r1x 65 def

/r1y 110 def

/r2x 35 def

/r2y 35 def

/fac 9.95 def

0

dup

    dup sin r1x mul exch fac mul sin r2x mul add cx add exch

    dup cos r1y mul exch fac mul cos r2y mul add cy add moveto

0 0.1 7200 {

dup

    dup sin r1x mul exch fac mul sin r2x mul add cx add exch

    dup cos r1y mul exch fac mul cos r2y mul add cy add lineto

} for

stroke

showpage

So to answer your question: Cups just works, I have no reason to believe it doesn't work on "ARM".

(there might be binary drivers for specialized printers that don't work. But in general it just works. Especially for network-printing there is no reason it should not work.)

To verify your claims I logged into my raspberry pi, I typed "apt-get install cups-bsd" (because I like the bsd-interface for printing), and it pulled in a shitload of packages.

Next I typed "lpr spiro2.ps" and I got a pleasing pattern out of my printer.

spiro2.ps contains the following data:

%!PS-Adobe-1.0

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842

/cshow { dup stringwidth pop 2 div 0 exch sub 0 rmoveto show } def

(Times-Roman) findfont 7 scalefont setfont

72 25.4 div dup scale

0.1 setlinewidth

/cx 105 def

/cy 150 def

/r1x 65 def

/r1y 110 def

/r2x 35 def

/r2y 35 def

/fac 9.95 def

0

dup

    dup sin r1x mul exch fac mul sin r2x mul add cx add exch

    dup cos r1y mul exch fac mul cos r2y mul add cy add moveto

0 0.1 7200 {

dup

    dup sin r1x mul exch fac mul sin r2x mul add cx add exch

    dup cos r1y mul exch fac mul cos r2y mul add cy add lineto

} for

stroke

showpage

So to answer your question: Cups just works, I have no reason to believe it doesn't work on "ARM".

(there might be binary drivers for specialized printers that don't work. But in general it just works. Especially for network-printing there is no reason it should not work.)

I believe cups is supplied with the Fedora14 Arm remix,

and presumably with Fedora17 whenever that arrives.

What image are you using??

Im using the Debian 19-4-12 image. Fully updated.

BTW all Chromium works from the repo's but its a real memory hog as you would guess,:)

how do you print after you install cups?

Your step where you typed:"lpr spiro.sp" did not make any sense. Don't you have to set-up a printer/ tell the print job where to go? If so, How do I do that (after cups is installed)?

Printer is called: " HP Photosmart C4500 series on 192.168.12.2 "  Location is: 192.168.12.2 on USB2 (shared printer)

Haha!

Yes, somehow,printers have to be configured. Somehow however, cups seems to find printers. I did NOT configure cups on my raspberry pi. It figured out what printers there are  in my office and allows printing to them automatically.

What I know is that file  (ehh. cups-) servers "shout" on the network what printers they have. Other cups installations will pick up on that and allow you to print on those printers automatically.

To configure cups go to http://localhost:631 (i.e. with a webbrowser of your choice). Follow the instructions.

When I type: http://localhost:631 into midori it does not load (Error - This page can not be found)

How do I check that cups installed correctly?

Check that you have /etc/cups and a file called cupsd.conf inside. That's where it should be configured to listen on port 631.

I just checked, and you're right. My raspberry pi is not listening on 631. My workstations are though. I ran the cupsd.conf files through "diff" and it told me:

+# Web interface setting...

+WebInterface Yes

And a few more settings.

There are a bunch of other things that you might need to set to allow configuring cups through that interface. I'm not a cups expert, googling for "cups confguration" gives you a couple of "how to allow cups configuration through the web-interface" links in the top three. Check out those. Good luck!

(I'm working on a different printer-problem today. A 3-D printer. :-) )

It seems that cups has NOT installed correctly.  Once I get it installed correctly then I will get back to you.