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Date: Sat,  3 Jul 2010 23:08:06 +0200
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] printing over usb
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Ep4.0 does not look like the place to send data. It's probably the control ep.
for the printer. IIRC, the driver adds a file named lp something, but I'm not
sure. Try to look at /dev to see if there's a file there. Otherwise it could be
something like ep4.1

On Jul 3, 2010, at 8:31 PM, James Chapman <james@cs.ioc.ee> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to use my hp laserjet 1300 postscript printer with plan9.
> I'm running plan9 under vmware fusion on a macbook and the printer is
> connected via usb.
>
> I checked that the printer is visible:
>
> term% usb/probe
> ep1.0 roothub csp 0x000009 ports 2 uhci
> ep2.0 roothub csp 0x000009 ports 6 ehci
> ep3.0 hub csp 0x000009 ports 7 none <nil> uhci
> ep4.0 printer csp 0x030107 csp 0x010107 vid 0x03f0 did 0x1017
> Hewlett-Packard 'hp LaserJet 1300' uhci
>
> I added the following line to /sys/lib/lp/devices:
>
> laserjet1300	- - /dev/usb/ep4.0/data - post+nohead generic nospool - - - -
>
> Then I tried to print something:
>
> term% lp -dlaserjet1300 /sys/doc/utf.ps
> cat: write error copying <stdin>: request timed out
>
> Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> James Chapman
>