Network Printing on the IT
 

Yo!

Printing over a network has been achieved through a port of CUPS to the n800. Penguinbait is a genius ;)

http://geekpenguin.blogspot.com/2007...g-on-n800.html

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wet dreams for this to come out. *crosses his fingers*

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*cough* Okie dokie, then

But this won't be here for a while, PB's not gonna let it out till it's perfect.

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Welcome to Linux.

The tricky part is finding ways of implementing printing in all applications... unless you just are cat'ing text files to a remote lpt.

Maybe not. A good amount of the ported applications have support for printing which just aren't enabled or have GUI options for it on the N800... (Microb, I'm looking at you.)

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I have been dealing with car problems, and have not done anything with this for a couple days.

I had it about 200MB to add printing support but it was only text on the command line, I installed the foomatic and hpijs along with cups and ghostscript. I am having the same issues (text only) (print test page fails, saying helvitica font missing) but it now has every printer in the damn world available. I believe the problems stem from missing fonts, The complete printing package is about 400MB uncompressed. about 60MB tar.bz2
foomatic is like 200MB so many small files.

So about 200MB and will print to most hp laser and deskjet printers, adding foomatic added every printer. I had to find perl for armel and install that also for foomatic.

I tested it at home, samba printing to HP 920C connected to windows XP home edition.

I tested at work, we have two Ricoh printers, I selected add printer and both of our Ricoh printers were in the list showing thier IP addresses, I selected the printer, selected the correct print driver and I was printing.

Again only text, the fonts will have to be worked out, I think this is my only problem.



OK, now you say 400MB, its got a lot of fat, all the doc, man pages, includes, lots that can be stripped down. If we removed all the printer drivers and made debs for each printer brand, we could shrink it down alot.


As pointed out already, this is great but if no apps can print to it, its not much use. I think its great even if I could only ever print at the command line, but I think we can get it to work.

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wow thats crazy how much space is needed to print, hope your car gets fixed cheap, my alternator belt just shredded. i hear magic carpets are low maintenance.

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Ah the car, I bought new in 2004 a chevy Aveo, this was the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned in my life. 70K miles, timing belt broke, and cause a valve to bend, engine is junk, 60K powertrain not doing me much good. I have talked to one dealer saying they are willing to go after GM to replace it, but I am not holding my breath. I purchased another car yesterday, I will get it tonight, so maybe I will have some time this weekend to play.

Again yes its huge, but it is only straight compile, so there is plenty to take away. A full install of RedHat is about 4GB, I think we could make a kick a55 full OS for about 2GB, wouldn't that be worth it?


What would be really nice, is if we could dump this hildon, and matchbox interface and work on a real window manager and adapt new apps to it that would make a more standard Linux interface more useable on this device.

I am anxiously awaiting the next hardware specs, but I may jump to a UMPC if there is not significant improvments in the hardware.

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I know it isn't for everyone, but as for myself I would be happy with just a BSD LPR installation with no filters or drivers or anything.. all network printers available to me are postscript/pdf capable. Should be only a few kilobytes in size I imagine. Anyway, if the printing capability had been enabled or made available in applications then we would be free to install any printing system of our choice.

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Aveo has an interfering engine design? Shame?

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Aveo is crap, if you have one change your timing belt every 50k miles

cups 1.2 working

size uncompressed 100mb

printing test pages from cups, in color with graphics

Now I need some apps to print from!!!!

Re: Network Printing on the IT
 

abiword 2.2.7 has print support (it worked for me in printing to postscript files, though with errors in graphics).