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Ok... So, I'll be dumb for a minute. I've downloaded the .pets for the Epson series printers, I've installed it. I still can't get CUPS to register my network printer? I've gone through all the CLI stuff trying to get it, but it still doesn't read it when I go to set it up.


Edit: However, I can access the Network Administration page of the printer. It is connected to my network via wireless.

Evil20071 wrote:I've downloaded the .pets for the Epson series printers, I've installed it. I still can't get CUPS to register my network printer?

What Puppy are you using? Are you running a firewall?

When you run Add Printer or Find New Printers, does CUPS detect the device? You may have to run Find New Printers several times.

If not, many Epson printers use the network "socket" protocol. So you can run "Add Printer" and manually enter the URI as "socket://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd".

I've gone through all the CLI stuff trying to get it, but it still doesnt' read it when I go to set it up.

What do you mean?

Go to the command line and type: What do you get back?

No. Cups doesn't register the device at all.

Running Slacko 5.3.3.

In that case, run Add Printer and select AppSocket/JetDirect

Enter the URI as

Ok... You're a genius... I'm obviously not. Thanks so much!

It's working, now, thanks to you.

Evil20071 wrote:It's working, now, thanks to you.

Excellent. I don't know why CUPS has trouble auto-detecting some network printers. The old CUPS 1.3.11 was much better at this.

For network scanning, read here.

Hello
I am in Puppy 5.6 an have tried for the longest time to print. Without printing it is of no use. is there any tip you can give me to enable this Puppy to print my HP Officejet 6500A?
Thank a lot
Peter

CUPS could not find my local (not network) printer. My problem was my browser security configuration restricts most cookies. Enabling cookies from ''localhost" resolved this issue, and then CUPS worked fine.