[cups.general] Re: cups Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6

[Sunil Thomas]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 20:04, cups-request at easysw.com wrote:
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>    1. Re: printer location?? (Guenther Frick)
>    2. Re: printer location?? (Ben)
>    3. Re: printer location?? (Steven P. Ulrick)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:19:18 +0200
> From: "Guenther Frick" <gfrick at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] printer location??
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> Ben wrote:
> > Phil Reynolds wrote:
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> >>On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:09:40AM +0000, Ben wrote:
> >>
> >>>hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>>I'm using lexmark z12 printer and I've set up CUPS. I tried to add a printer from the web application... It asks for the printer location. Is this the serial or parallel port or is it something else? I tried using the ports and also the IP address of my machine but it gives me the error: "The printer name may only contain up to 127 printable characters."
> >>>
> Look here for the right driver:
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z12
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:23:34 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Ben <anonymous at easysw.com>
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] printer location??
> To: cups at easysw.com
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> "Guenther Frick" wrote:
> > Ben wrote:
> > > Phil Reynolds wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:09:40AM +0000, Ben wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>hi everyone,
> > >>>
> > >>>I'm using lexmark z12 printer and I've set up CUPS. I tried to add a printer from the web application... It asks for the printer location. Is this the serial or parallel port or is it something else? I tried using the ports and also the IP address of my machine but it gives me the error: "The printer name may only contain up to 127 printable characters."
> > >>>
> > Look here for the right driver:
> > http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z12
> >
> 
> That's exactly what i used (lxm3200-tweaked) but it's not working for some reason... as i said earlier, i'm unable to add the printer from web based interface... hope someone can help me...
> 
> Ben
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 00:24:10 -0500
> From: "Steven P. Ulrick" <ulrick2 at faith4miracle.org>
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] printer location??
> To: "Mirror of cups.general Newsgroup" <cups at easysw.com>
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> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:23:34 +0000 (UTC)
> Ben <anonymous at easysw.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Guenther Frick" wrote:
> > > Ben wrote:
> > > > Phil Reynolds wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:09:40AM +0000, Ben wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>>hi everyone,
> > > >>>
> > > >>>I'm using lexmark z12 printer and I've set up CUPS. I tried to
> > > >add a printer from the web application... It asks for the printer
> > > >location. Is this the serial or parallel port or is it something
> > > >else? I tried using the ports and also the IP address of my machine
> > > >but it gives me the error: "The printer name may only contain up to
> > > >127 printable characters.">>
> > > Look here for the right driver:
> > > http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z12
> > >
> > 
> > That's exactly what i used (lxm3200-tweaked) but it's not working for
> > some reason... as i said earlier, i'm unable to add the printer from
> > web based interface... hope someone can help me...
> > 
> > Ben
> 
> Hello, Ben :)
> This might not help in your case, but in my case, I connect our printer,
> via CUPS, to the USB port.  But, as you've probably discovered, that is
> not what CUPS means as relating to the printer location.  Our printer is
> not on a network, so the correct thing to put as the location of our
> printer is "localhost"  I'll try to find out where I found that, just in
> case that is not how you hook up your printer.
> 
> Steven P. Ulrick
> 
> 
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Hai Ben,

I think the error is occured because you used space in printer Name.
please try without space a single name.

Sunil