Today, I set up one of my "new" FreeBSD boxes for printing direct to my networked Epson XP-830 according to the method shown in the Handbook in Part 9.
Once I fixed my fat-finger errors, the print jobs are sent to the printer almost instantly....BUT...the printer sits there and "looks at me" for many seconds before it finally spits out the completed job.
So, why is this? Do I need to add another control command somewhere?
Secondly, although according to the Handbook one should use the DNS name for the printer, which in this case is EPSON813840, nothing would work until I changed that entry to the DNS IP address for the printer, when it began to work.
Is this OK or do I need to do something else to make this system work?
My next job is to configure and activate CUPS. I tried this earlier, it didn't work, so I dropped back to the simpler method, which does work...sorta. When I tried to do the CUPS method, I could never find what I considered to be the correct PPD file for my printer, and there were other errors which showed up. But I'll wait until I have this method working perfectly before I go on to that.
Ken Gordon
Once I fixed my fat-finger errors, the print jobs are sent to the printer almost instantly....BUT...the printer sits there and "looks at me" for many seconds before it finally spits out the completed job.
So, why is this? Do I need to add another control command somewhere?
Secondly, although according to the Handbook one should use the DNS name for the printer, which in this case is EPSON813840, nothing would work until I changed that entry to the DNS IP address for the printer, when it began to work.
Is this OK or do I need to do something else to make this system work?
My next job is to configure and activate CUPS. I tried this earlier, it didn't work, so I dropped back to the simpler method, which does work...sorta. When I tried to do the CUPS method, I could never find what I considered to be the correct PPD file for my printer, and there were other errors which showed up. But I'll wait until I have this method working perfectly before I go on to that.
Ken Gordon