TurboPrint

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1 Emerging
2 Configuring
3 Troubleshooting
4 Integrating with KDE
5 Registering
6 External Links

Emerging

Fetch the turboprint ebuild from the xwing overlay.

# emerge layman

Do what the info says after the install, and run the sync with `layman -S`. Then checkout xwing.

# layman -a xwing
# emerge turboprint

That should do it.

Configuring

You can use either cups or lprng as your spooler. Cups is fine, although you need to conf turboprint to use it, it defaults to lpr.

# tpsetup

Select your printer, save and go to http://localhost:631. You should see your printer there.

If it doesn't work, check your config file. Here is an example.

File: /etc/turboprint/system.cfg

TP_INSTALLATIONSTATE=1
TP_CUPS=1
TPBIN_BROWSER=konqueror
TPFILE_PRINTCAP=/etc/printcap
TPPATH_CONFIG=/etc/turboprint
TPPATH_SHARE=/usr/share/turboprint
TPPATH_SPOOL=/var/spool/lpd
TPPATH_BIN=/usr/bin
TPPATH_FILTERS=/usr/share/turboprint/lib
TPPATH_DOC=/usr/share/turboprint/doc
TPPATH_LOG=/var/log
TPPATH_TEMP=/tmp
TPPATH_MAN=/usr/share/man
TPPATH_CUPSDRIVER=/usr/share/cups/model
TPPATH_CUPSSETTINGS=/etc/cups/ppd
TPPATH_CUPSFILTER=/usr/lib/cups/filter
TPPATH_CUPSFILTER64=/usr/lib64/cups/filter
TPOWN_SPOOLDIR=lp
TPMOD_SPOOLDIR=0755
TPOWN_SPOOLFILE=lp
TPMOD_SPOOLFILE=0640

Print a test page via xtpconfig or the cups printer page.

Troubleshooting

First of all,

$ cat /var/log/cups/error_log
$ cat /var/log/turboprint_cups.log

Look for these lines:

I [11/May/2006:09:46:49 +0300] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 7098) for job 52.
I [11/May/2006:09:46:49 +0300] Started filter /usr/share/turboprint/lib/pstoturboprint (PID 7101) for job 52.
I [11/May/2006:09:46:49 +0300] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 7102) for job 52.

Cups says: filter not found

You may need to specify two symbolic links:

cd /usr/lib/cups/filter/
ln -s /usr/share/turboprint/lib/rastertoturboprint rastertoturboprint
ln -s /usr/share/turboprint/lib/pstoturboprint pstoturboprint

(To specify the full path to these two files in /etc/cups/ppd/tp0.ppd is not a good idea, because everytime you run xtpconfig this configuration file gets overwritten.)

Integrating with KDE

# emerge kdeprint -n # if you haven't done so already

From the GUI select Add => Printer/class and select your printer and the turboprint drivers.

Registering

You might also want to consider registering. It's 30 EUR. 300 dpi is pretty scarce. I paid mine license with credit card and got the license key after a couple of hours. Works fine, so I'd consider giving them the message that they're doing good work.

To install your license key:

# tpsetup --install {key_location}