I have an Epson CX3500 multifunction printer\/scannner\/copier thing. Its spends most of it’s time with one ink tank requiring replacement. I should get rid of it, but it allows me to make excuses to go to my local Dick Smith Electronics store.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I have this USB CX3500 connected to my Debian Etch box and set up as a local cups printer. I have two queues for it; cx3500raw and “Stylus-CX3500—CUPS+Gutenprint-v5.0.0” (I should change that).\u00a0 The cx3500raw is naturally a raw queue and the other one isn’t. The raw one is so a windows computer on the home network can print to it with the Windows CX3500 driver installed locally on the windows computer.<\/p>\n
So with my Mac Mini I wanted to print to the thing as well. OS X 10.4.x has CUPS as its native printing solution (I think) so I thought this should be easy.\u00a0 It’s been rather painful. First I thought it’d have to be set up similar to how the Windows machine works; ie. you specify the queue as the remote raw queue, but the driver is local.\u00a0 The printer adder in OS X doesn’t seem to let you add raw queues, so I had to follow the instructions here<\/a>. That worked so long as I created a printer in the GUI that was the non-raw printer queue.<\/p>\n So here’s what I did:<\/p>\n – use the gui to add a printer ; Protocol is IPP, Address is just the IP address of the remote CUPS server (don’t put :631 on the end of the address) and my queue was \/printers\/Stylus-CX3500—CUPS+Gutenprint-v5.0.0 . Name is whatever you like. And print using Generic Postscript.<\/p>\n