HOWTO Turboprint
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[edit] Emerging
Fetch the turboprint ebuild from the xwing overlay.
# emerge layman
Do what the info says after the install, and run the sync with `layman -S`. Then checkout xwing.
# layman -a xwing # emerge turboprint
That should do it.
[edit] Configuring
You can use either cups or lprng as your spooler. Cups is fine, although you need to conf turboprint to use it, it defaults to lpr.
# tpsetup
Select your printer, save and go to http://localhost:631. You should see your printer there.
If it doesn't work, check your config file. Here is an example.
| File: /etc/turboprint/system.cfg |
TP_INSTALLATIONSTATE=1 TP_CUPS=1 TPBIN_BROWSER=konqueror TPFILE_PRINTCAP=/etc/printcap TPPATH_CONFIG=/etc/turboprint TPPATH_SHARE=/usr/share/turboprint TPPATH_SPOOL=/var/spool/lpd TPPATH_BIN=/usr/bin TPPATH_FILTERS=/usr/share/turboprint/lib TPPATH_DOC=/usr/share/turboprint/doc TPPATH_LOG=/var/log TPPATH_TEMP=/tmp TPPATH_MAN=/usr/share/man TPPATH_CUPSDRIVER=/usr/share/cups/model TPPATH_CUPSSETTINGS=/etc/cups/ppd TPPATH_CUPSFILTER=/usr/lib/cups/filter TPPATH_CUPSFILTER64=/usr/lib64/cups/filter TPOWN_SPOOLDIR=lp TPMOD_SPOOLDIR=0755 TPOWN_SPOOLFILE=lp TPMOD_SPOOLFILE=0640 |
Print a test page via xtpconfig or the cups printer page.
[edit] Troubleshooting
First of all,
$ cat /var/log/cups/error_log $ cat /var/log/turboprint_cups.log
Look for these lines:
I [11/May/2006:09:46:49 +0300] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 7098) for job 52. I [11/May/2006:09:46:49 +0300] Started filter /usr/share/turboprint/lib/pstoturboprint (PID 7101) for job 52. I [11/May/2006:09:46:49 +0300] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 7102) for job 52.
Cups says: filter not found
You may need to specify two symbolic links:
cd /usr/lib/cups/filter/ ln -s /usr/share/turboprint/lib/rastertoturboprint rastertoturboprint ln -s /usr/share/turboprint/lib/pstoturboprint pstoturboprint
(To specify the full path to these two files in /etc/cups/ppd/tp0.ppd is not a good idea, because everytime you run xtpconfig this configuration file gets overwritten.)
[edit] Integrating with KDE
# emerge kdeprint -n # if you haven't done so already
From the GUI select Add => Printer/class and select your printer and the turboprint drivers.
[edit] Registering
You might also want to consider registering. It's 30 EUR. 300 dpi is pretty scarce. I paid mine license with credit card and got the license key after a couple of hours. Works fine, so I'd consider giving them the message that they're doing good work.
To install your license key:
# tpsetup --install {key_location}
