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Old 7th July 2008
Shagbag Shagbag is offline
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I appear to have fixed the problem. It was a simple case of enabling the lp daemon (lpd). I had not done this. Once I had it running, printing was no problem.

EDIT:

It seems enabling lpd was only half the solution. After shutting everything down and repeating my steps, I discovered there is a problem with OpenBSD loading the firmware into the printer. If I simply unplug the printer from my OpenBSD server's USB port and plug the printer into my Archlinux PC then the firmware is transfered to the printer (from my Archlinux install). I then unplug it from my Archlinux box and plug it back into my OpenBSD server et voila! The printer works. If I don't do this then the printer just sits there idle.

Last edited by Shagbag; 8th July 2008 at 06:23 AM. Reason: found another cause
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