ACD Linux System Administration notes

ACD Linux System Admini

Setting up a NetGear PS110 print server with an Epson C80 printer

I started this project after having poor success with our Axis print servers. The NetGear PS110 comes out of the box configured to boot with DHCP and the MAC address is printed on the case. So I was able to get the print server to boot with the identity 'epsontf.acd' fairly quickly. I was able to ping to epsontf and from that point:

For lprng /etc/printcap I used the following entry for the raw queue etf:
```
etf:force_localhost
etf:server
   :tc=.common
   :lp=P1@epsontf.acd.ucar.edu
```
Note that the queue "p1" is the first parallel port and the queue "p2" is the second one. I had previously generated a test page in the C80 version of the Epson C80 command language and use "lpr -b" to send it to the queue "etf". That worked great.
Now I set up and tested a queue on the Windows 2000 side to print to
```
\\epsontf\etf
```
.
I needed a print driver for the Epson Stylus C80 series, and it turns out that the latest version of gimp-print 4.2 will work. That version is included in the ghostscript-6.52-4.i386.rpm module, but that module wouldn't install for Redhat 7.1. So I got the ghostscript-6.52-4.src.rpm module and installed it. That gave me everything I needed in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. I copied those to /jo/fredrick/gs. I decided to create ghostscript for /usr/local so it can run alongside the Ghostscript 5 version RPM that's already installed on net.
- for a in *.tar do ; tar xzpvf $a ; done
- tar xjpvf ghostscript-6.52.tar.bz2
- tar xjpvf hpijs-1.0.2.tar.bz2
- cd ghostscript-6.52/src
- cp unix-gcc.mac ../Makefile
- cd ..
- ln -s ../jpeg-6b jpeg
- (I had to get a copy of zlib -- I just grabbed zlib-1.3.3 from a previous build). ln -s ../zlib-1.1.3 zlib
- (same for libpng) ln -s ../libpng-1.0.2 libpng
- make
- That build was successful, so now we want to incorporate gimp-print.
- cd ../gimp-print-4.2.0
- sudo ./configure
- make
- sudo make install (this installs libgimpprint library which I think allows us to update just gimp-print as we add new printer drivers)
- cd gimp-print-4.2.0/src/ghost
- cp gdevstp.c /jo/fredrick/gs/ghostscript-6.52/src
- cat contrib.mak.addon >> /jo/fredrick/gs/ghostscript-6.52/src/contrib.mak
- Edit /jo/fredrick/gs/ghostscript-6.52/Makefile and add "$(DD)stp.dev" to the line "DEVICE_DEVS6=".
  - cd /jo/fredrick/gs/ghostscript-6.52
  - make clean ; make ; sudo make install
  - cd /jo/fredrick/gs/gimp-print-4.2.0/src/main/.libs
  - tar cpf - . | ( cd /usr/lib ; tar xpvf - )
  - test by running '/usr/local/bin/gs -h' to see if stp is listed among the drivers.
```
doctor:/usr/local/bin> ./gs -h | grep stp 
   bjc800 stp faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b
```
- Created a filter script /usr/local/bin/epson_filter_c80
```
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stp -sModel=escp2-c80 -sMediaType='Inkjet Paper' \
 -sQuality='720 DPI High Quality'  -q -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2
```
- Created an /etc/printcap entry on doctor
```
.common:
         :sh:
#	 :sf:
	 :mc=0:
         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:
         :lf=log:
         :af=acct:
	 :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
         :mx=0:


# --------- Tim Fredrick's Printer ---------------------------------------
epsontf:force_localhost
epsontf:server
   :tc=.common
   :lp=etf@localhost
   :lpd_bounce
   :filter=/usr/local/bin/epson_filter_c80
epsontft:force_localhost
epsontft:server
   :tc=.common
   :lp=etf@localhost
   :lpd_bounce
   :filter=/usr/local/bin/epson_filter_c80_transparency
etf:force_localhost
etf:server
   :tc=.common
   :lp=P1@epsontf.acd.ucar.edu
```
- sudo checkpc -f
- cd /etc/rc.d/init.d ; sudo ./lpd stop ; sudo ./lpd start
Copied over fonts.
- Grabbed from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ the files
  - ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz
  - gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz
  - ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz
  - gnu-gs-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz
- Untarred into /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
Tested by setting $PRINTER to "etf" and getting a small postscript file, tst.ps: cat tst.ps | /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stp -sModel=escp2-c80 -q -sOutputFile=tst.esc2 ; lpr -b etf
Looked good for the default resolution.
Now tried the "epsontf" queue. Did an "export PRINTER=epsontf" and then "lpr -b tiger.ps"