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How to Install your Printer/Scanner in Fatdog64-600
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7753 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Some Linux printer/scanner drivers are available in 64-bit form. These will work in Fatdog64-600 using the standard CUPS installation procedure. However, some manufacturers only supply 32-bit drivers. Luckily, many of these packages can also be used in FD600 after the following modification to CUPS: 1. Go here and get the 32bit-slacko-1.sfs. This is the 32-bit compatibility package for FD600. 2. From the Control Panel, open Bootmanager Configure Bootup. 3. Select the 32bit-slacko.sfs to load at bootup. 4. Open Manage System Services. 5. Select "cups32" AND deselect "cups". 6. Reboot. 7. Install your 32-bit printer driver. ---------------------------- Note: FD600 runs its web browser with the unprivileged user spot. This means that you cannot directly download and install a PET package from inside your browser. You must save the file, leave the browser, then install the package. ---------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard: The hplip_print_fd600 and hplip_scan_fd600 drivers are available from the repo. These are 64-bit packages and do NOT require the above modification. A light-weight scanning alternative to Xsane is Peasyscan. Find it in the Graphic menu. Read here for more information. The 64-bit version of Tesseract OCR is in the repo. Some HP models like the Laserjet 1000 series require additional components. They are best installed using the foo2xxx driver. Various Samsung, Minolta and OKI colour laser printers are also supported by this package. The applicable models are listed here. The foo2xxx_fd600.pet is in the repo. This is a 64-bit package. It does not contain the ICM colour profile data because monochrome printers don't use it. If you need those files, go here. ---------------------------- Canon: The Gutenprint driver system in FD600 supports many Canon models, so look there first. Also, Canon is now supplying 64-bit drivers for some of its printers. Check in the repo. If you still need a driver, look here. These are 32-bit packages and DO require the modification. Note: The original Canon drivers by Patriot are NOT compatible with FD600 and should NOT be installed. Many Canon multi-function scanners will now work OOTB in FD600. Canon also has their own scangearmp scanning program for some models. Look in the repo. These packages also require the matching common package. For scanners from the Canon LiDE 100/110/200/210 series, get the sane_lide_fd600-1.0.23.pet from the repo. ------------------------------ Epson: FD600 has the Gutenprint driver package which supports many Epson printers. However, some newer models need the epson_inkjet_printer_escpr_fd600.pet from the repo. This is a 64-bit package. For scanning, read here and get the epkowa_backend_fd600.pet and the optional iscan_fd600.pet from the repo. Also, read here about older Epson scanners and Peasyscan. --------------------- Brother: Read the how-to here. Brother printers require the CUPS modification. You can install them using the "debbi" method or with one of the ready-made driver PETs. The Brother web site DOES have 64-bit scanner drivers. You can install them with "debbi". -------------------------- Samsung: If your Samsung printer is not included in Gutenprint, use the 64-bit samsung_print_fd600 from the repo. This package supports monochrome laser printers from the ML and SCX series. Some Samsung colour laser printers can also be installed using the foo2xxx driver package. There is also a Samsung scanner package in the repo. ------------------------- Lexmark: Some Lexmark drivers are available here. These will require the CUPS modification. Your scanner may not work in a 64-bit environment. --------------------------- Kodak: Print/scan drivers for various ESP and Hero models are now available in the repo. Read here for details. ------------------------ A few legacy printers can be installed using the built-in Ghostscript drivers. Typically, you would go to openprinting.org and download a PPD file into the folder /usr/share/cups/model. You may also need the foomatic_rip_fd600.pet from the repo. ------------------------ CUPS 1.5 in FD600 does not auto-detect parallel port printers. Run the command
and try again. You will probably want to put this command in your rc.local file. -------------------------- Once you have a printer connected to your Fatdog machine, you can share it with other users on your network. There are two ways to do this - through CUPS and through FD's built-in Samba server. For information about the CUPS method, read Sharing your Puppy Printer with Other Windows or Linux Machines . To make the client setup easier, install the CUPS printer on the server with a short name, like MY-HP. But if you are already using Samba file sharing, you may prefer to use it as a print server too. This method has the advantage of identifying the printer by the server's hostname instead of its IP address. However, a little extra setup is required. 1. On the SERVER machine, open Control Panel > Localisation. Select a locale that uses UTF8. 2. Go to /etc/samba and open your smb.conf file. Add the following lines to the [global] section:
3. Restart the Samba server. For testing purposes, you can do this from the command line with:
4. Go to a client machine and install the printer. Read Using Samba-TNG as a Network Print Server. Ignore Note #1 and #2. Last edited by rcrsn51 on Tue 23 Apr 2013, 09:10; edited 1 time in total |
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RickGT351
Joined: 27 Sep 2011 Posts: 24 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
The link you provide in
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rcrsn51
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7753 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Thanks. I have updated the link. I haven't looked at this in a while. Please report if you have any problems. |
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